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By the time the case was settled two years later, the fight had halved Via's market share and shattered the company's strategy.

Equities nearly halved their losses after the Fed stuck with its ultra-loose monetary policy and said the economy was gaining traction.

Thanks to four years of annual economic growth of over 8%, poverty and unemployment have halved since he took office in 2003 (see chart 2).

Another worker, leaving in a thick black coat, said he had been employed in the same GAZ factory for 35 years and also seen his pay halved.

For this book I decided to use the breadth of the paper folded a few times and then its height halved.

Scientists have been struggling for decades to understand the disappearance of honeybees, where numbers have halved since the 1980s.

In the same statement in which he unveiled the infrastructure plan, the British chancellor halved the tolls for crossing the Humber bridge.

In 2009, when the last of the "franchisee" contracts expired, Ms Wu halved the online prices, which had formerly matched those in-store.

Total trade volumes have more than halved since a year ago, say market participants. Complex trades have vanished from the market.

But a magnesium atom would carry two electrons, so a battery storing a given amount of energy could be nearly halved in size and weight.

Xu Yiqi, owner of a clothing store in the eastern Chinese city of Huzhou, said daily sales have halved since the earthquake.

Mr Borchardt says he used to have a waiting list of two years, but the downturn has halved it.

Loan impairment charges across the bank almost halved to $14bn.

My decade-old (and momentarily unused) overdraft facility, it informed me, was to be halved forthwith.

But he said tumbling global oil prices had halved the oil revenues the government expected to pour into the budget.

The Merrill Lynch Uranium Equity index is at its lowest level for almost three years, and has halved from its peak.

Greek pensions, which are thought to largely invested in governments bonds, are going to be halved of nearly so.

However, in order to curb temperature rises to this extent, scientists calculate that global emissions must be at least halved by 2050.

Even before the one child policy, Chinese fertility had already halved as a result of an earlier policy to delay and space births.

Since the nadir in March, U. S. stocks have gained close to 50% and investment-grade credit spreads have halved.

Based on yesterday's share price, the value of CDB's investment in Barclays has roughly halved from when it bought the stake a year ago.

They were short of sticks to make frames for the climbing vines, without which the yield would be halved.

Over the last two decades, thanks largely to government policy, the poverty rate in Brazil has halved.

But even after budget cuts have halved their ranks, an uncertain future doesn't scare men who drop from the sky to do battle with fire.

Roughly chop half of the halved cherries and spread them on top of the batter, dividing them evenly between the eight ramekins.

Measles deaths have been almost halved over the last few years.

He was speaking as Enel halved its dividend and set out a programme of cuts in capital spending to bring down its borrowings.

In addition, the time taken to read the page of a newspaper more than halved, New Scientist journal reports.

Across the scrap trade, prices have halved or worse in a matter of months.

Share prices had halved and there had been massive bond defaults, but no big bank collapses.

By the end of the experiment, their anxiety scores had halved, whereas the others' stayed the same.

I asked the great New York collector Agnes Gund how she would feel about her artworks if their value suddenly halved.

It required that the deficit be halved and the Fed raise rates. This was costly to growth and the administration's goals.

A stack of halved timbers nestled beneath the eaves against the side wall.

Recession has favoured McDonald's over BK, whose share price has halved since the economy was flame-grilled in the summer of 2008.

The recent arrival of Chinese traders in the grimy alleys of Soweto market in Lusaka halved the cost of chicken.

The rate of annual decline in exports was roughly halved for South Korea and Thailand.

The populations of six species have more than halved since the 1970s and five species have become extinct.

The company's profits halved after the demand in the market became low.

Among the staples, the price of corn, wheat and rice has almost halved.

But by close the bank's gain had more than halved, while the market was flat.

Its market value has been more than halved - shedding $82 billion-since the spill began nearly two months ago.

Partly because of falling demand, the average rise in IT wages has halved, to around 10% a year.

The analyst halved his fourth-quarter earnings estimate for the company to 15 cents a share from 33 cents.

By 2030 that proportion is expected to have halved, making new investments all the more critical.

Local media have made surprisingly little of the story, even as Olympus's market value has roughly halved.

Having subsequently halved, Chinese stocks are no longer quite so expensive.

Fees paid to consultants are to be halved and the salaries of senior staff reviewed.

The crisis has halved the company's value; shares fell another 11 per cent on Monday.

New York is only down 20%. Arizona has halved. Will prices fall further?

Taking the drug with grapefruit juice or the naringin mixture halved the amount of drug that reached the bloodstream.

In the UK, trade union membership has halved over the past quarter of a century.

The benchmark has more than halved in value so far this year.

Under the queen, the cost to the state of royalty has more than halved since 1992, a period when other government costs rocketed.

At the turn of this decade, the US GDP was more than eight times bigger than China's, but ten years down the line the gap has halved.

Specifications regarding size have been halved.

Not only has global warming made hunting considerably more dangerous, it has also halved the hunting season.

Over the past year, Greece has halved its budget deficit and formulated plausible plans to head for budget balance.

The score on the final exam will be halved and each half counts as a quiz score when calculating your grade.

There's an old adage "a problem shared is a problem halved" .

Similarly, the tournament's projected contribution to gross domestic product has been halved, to half a percentage point.

Imagine waking up and finding the value of your assets has been halved.

When you are insubstantial, you take half damage from any attack that deals damage to you. [[Ongoing damage]] is also halved.

Cash cuts have halved the number of places available on training courses.

This month, it halved the sales-tax rate on smaller cars to 5% for the rest of 2009, and cut retail prices for gasoline and diesel.

As for Blackstone, the stock has halved since the IPO.

Oil officials say Libyan oil production has been "halved" due to the nationwide unrest.

By the time the Chinese were talking to Citi, the Blackstone investment had nearly halved in value.

By the time of Nehru's death in 1964, India's share of world trade had halved.

The price of bauxite, Jamaica's other big earner, has more than halved since its peak last July.

Over the past eight years, the overall number of homicides has halved.

The market has basically halved in size. No wonder it cannot support all the players.

Since 2003 global CD sales have roughly halved. Competition from pirates has crushed retailers and forced record labels to cut prices.

Helped by state subsidies, the costs of solar and wind energy have more than halved in recent years.

The number of DFIs was halved to six through mergers and closure of poorly performing institutions.

Week of Forgery: Cost of creature upgrade halved.

The growth in rice yields between the two periods halved.

The shares have more than halved in value since the summer high of 572p.

Subrata, a 34-year-old who sells gasoline to local motorcyclists in Karawang, Indonesia, said that the increase had halved his sales.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has now halved from its peak.

Even so, its average selling price for large-sized panels had nearly halved from a year ago, to a record low of $109.

The therapy, carried out by Chicago's Northwestern University, halved the number of bouts of angina chest pain.

China's three largest banks have halved in value over the same period.

Foreign aid to farming also halved in real terms over the same period.

Over the past six years, the average price-to-book value of the biggest 50 banks has halved from two to one.

To his customers and halved the price.

Pile the remaining halved cherries on top of and around cakes, and serve immediately.

Exports nearly halved in February compared to the year before.

For investors who thought shares then looked cheap, the market has since halved again.

In sub-Saharan Africa, a number of countries have halved their levels of maternal mortality since 1990.

Japan's new vehicle sales in April halved, sinking to the lowest monthly tally on record.

Big trading economies like Japan, Korea, and Taiwan see their exports halved.

Indeed, statins halved the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The stock market had halved in value and bank runs were spreading from one institution to another, wiping out both the healthy and the weak.

Freight can be halved if payment can be made immediately.

The newest planes have halved the time needed for crossing the Atlantic.

The latest planes have halved the time needed for crossing the Atlantic.

For bearings on vertical shafts, the intervals obtained from diagram 4 should be halved.

Within weeks a countrywide boycott had almost halved the price.

Finally, the Mask value is halved to search at a finer resolution.

Happiness shared is doubled ; while sorrow shared is halved .

He halved the pear between the two children.

Since 1990, some countries in Asia and Northern Africa have more than halved maternal mortality.

The nets halved malaria cases in Rwanda, Cambodia and Zambia, and reduced incidence by 76 per cent in the Philippines.

During the 2008 crisis, China's exports fell 25 percent, and its imports from Asia halved.

The ringspot virus had halved papaya production in Hawaii before a resistant GM strain was introduced in 1998.

The stock halved in value and analysts were calculating the odds on AIG's survival.

Japanese exports, already down 46 per cent in January from the year before, halved in February.

But between February and June 2007, when daily turnover almost tripled, monthly new loans halved.

Murders have almost halved since 2002; kidnappings have fallen much more.

Output was up, inventory was tighter and defect rates were halved.

Week of Folly: Experience gained from battles halved.

The bombers more than halved the record set by Lucky Lady II only eight years previous, and they did it with three aircraft to boot.

Crude oil prices halved over the 12 months but doubled after a trough in December.

If Western waste could be halved and the food distributed to those who need it, the problem of feeding 9 billion people would vanish.

Mixing traditional mixer than halved.

Week of Might'n'Magic: Non-magic damage increased by 50% and spell cost halved during battles.

Japanese exports almost halved in January.

The President of Renmin university, Ji Baocheng, claims the labor force population between the ages of 28 and 40 will be halved in 10 years.

Production of clothing and footwear, for instance, has almost halved since 1992.

Japan started to intervene in the stock market in 1991 after prices halved after the "bubble economy" burst.

In Asia, the number of stunted children is estimated to have halved between 1990 (190 million) and 2010 (100 million).

He's never sold any shares, while Morgan Stanley's share price has more than halved since 2007.

Current account surpluses and deficits have halved since their 2007 peak.

Since 2006 Ford has halved its shop-floor workforce in North America and cut a third of office jobs.

Countries such as Spain halved their gold holdings in a new rush to sell; France started a programme of large disposals.

In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.

The new assembly line has halved the production cost.

China's central government last January halved the sales tax on smaller-engine vehicles, which saw sales surge in 2009 as a result.

Week of Magic: Spell cost halved during battles.

Although it accounts for 60 per cent of Rio's assets, it is the biggest drag on its first half earnings, which more than halved to $2. 6bn.

BoA's shares had halved this year before Buffett's arrival.

In this year's rankings, those salary increases have halved, with Columbia again reporting the highest increases of just 121 per cent.

The 10% national threshold needed to win seats in parliament will be halved.

Black secondary school graduation rates have nearly tripled since 1966, and the rate of poverty has been nearly halved in that time.

Between 2002 and 2008 the murder rate halved and killings of human-rights activists and trade-union leaders abated.

The knight halved his bread with the beggar.

Exports of computer parts halved.

Import tax on electronics halved.

Not surprisingly, the newspaper's circulation more than halved between 2001 and 2008.

Pain shared is halved, joy shared is doubled.

As demand for chemicals has fallen, Dow Chemical's share price has more than halved in the past 12 months.

In 2008 and 2009, the average price of a solar panel halved.

At the start most markets had already halved from their 2007 peak.

In the event her majority was nearly halved.

Condoms became so widely available that the birth rate halved in the decade from 1947-57.

Carly Fiorina was dumped in 2005 after HP's share price halved; Mark Hurd in 2010, after a sex-and-expenses scandal.

Canada wants the G20 to endorse the idea that national deficits should be halved by 2013.

A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

Over the past decade the share of Japan's exports that go to America halved; those to Europe fell by a third.

In the past six months, their shares have all more than halved.

Its operating margin has almost halved since 2008.

Investors who bought bonds back then saw the real value of their holdings halved by the late 1960s.

RBS has since halved its Greek exposure, so that could be 100 basis points less by now.

In January 1998, when Asian markets had halved from their July 1997 peak, flows into regional funds also turned positive, points out Citi.

But for states that require background checks on those buying handguns at shows, it is roughly halved, at 5. 7.

Understandably, the population (12, 600) has halved since 1911, but those remaining are more phlegmatic than ever.

Net debt has halved in three months.

Bank of East Asia plunged 8. 3 per cent to a two-year low of HK$33. 20, after it said half-year profit had halved.

Halved the recipe to serve two.

But mainland retail investors have turned cautious after the Chinese market halved in 2008.

The charge almost halved overall, falling to $7. 5bn year-on-year.

Aid to agriculture has halved between 1980 and 2005: now is the time to reverse this trend.

Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, which halved in July, lost an additional 22 square kilometers (8. 5 square miles).

Though the number of Russia's billionaires halved in the last year, some luxury brands are surviving and even flourishing.

Even if this profligate use of capital is halved, it still means credit expansion of 10%-15% is needed to achieve real GDP growth of 2%-3%.

If we halve the mass carried, sliding friction is also halved.

Its current-account surplus has almost halved to around 6% of GDP from 11% in 2007.

Mexico has halved its rate of stillbirths in that time.

On the other side, the number of marriages nearly halved since 1972 to around 246, 000 in 2008.

Roughly 10m of Brazil's 192m people joined the ranks of the middle class between 2004 and 2008, and since 1990, poverty levels have halved.

Corn has halved.

Last year it had halved to 8. 76 per cent. Over roughly the same period, Japan's share of global trade fell even more steeply to 4 per cent.

The Nikkei 225 index halved from its peak above 36, 000.

From 2001 to the third quarter of 2005, the Shanghai composite index halved in value.

The rates they can earn for each container shipped have also more than halved on some routes because of serious overcapacity.

The external debt of the Kazakh banking sector, which was 26% of GDP when the crisis struck, has been roughly halved.

1, At the same time , sales resulting from visits by company representatives have more than halved from 40% to 17%.

Operating margins halved to 1. 1 per cent.

and the poverty rate was halved in the ten years to 2009, helped by an eightfold increase in the oil price.

From late 1997 to mid-1999, one-year benchmark lending rate was almost halved from 10. 08% to 5. 85%.

Last year, its rival Unilever halved the pack size of washing powder Omo, rebranding it Small & Mighty.

In the same period, TB prevalence halved, from 215 to 108 per 100 000 population.

Bangladesh's rate is 2. 16, having halved in 20 years.

Nokia's market share more than halved last year, from above 40 per cent in the first quarter to below one fifth by the fourth quarter.

Net profit at Korean Air almost halved to Won11bn in 2007 although sales rose 9 per cent to Won8, 810bn.

The market value of the banks has more than halved from $4, 116bn in 2008 to $1, 937bn in 2009.

Inflation has halved from its peak of 12 per cent last year as food and fuel prices have eased.

Since Air China's offer was made in late January, China Eastern shares have halved in value from HK$6. 73 to HK$3. 36.

Copper prices, for example, have halved.

In English we say that A problem shared is a problems halved.

One of his editors warned him that sales of the book would be halved by every equation he included;

In Britain, for example, the FTSE 100 index more than halved between December 1999 and March 2003.

Komori equipment of alcohol at least device than any other brand halved;

Statistics collected in Hong Kong show exports of rare earth metals have halved over the past year to reach just 1, 819 tonnes last month.

Consider just two statistics: the capitalisation of world stock markets has halved;

An Automatic Strength Inspection System for Halved Joint Cartridges

Hong Kong last year halved its wine tax from 80 per cent thanks to a large fiscal surplus.

1 apple, halved, cored, and thinly sliced, slices halved crosswise

Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;

Cup halved red seedless grapes

1 pound fresh tart red cherries, halved and pitted

280 g Fresh strawberries, halved if large

1 Ripe avocado, halved and pit removed

Hospital births move has halved newborn deaths in China