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But this year, Africa moves up to third place among regions, and two-thirds of its countries have made at least one regulatory reform.

The number of former government officials, managers and technicians is increasing among the group, accounting for two-thirds of the total.

About two-thirds of adults consult their doctor at least once a year.

S. economy. Currently, the United States has its own national family housing families about two-thirds of the total, the best level in U.

When he did not get the two-thirds majority he needed he announced his departure, even before the meeting had ended.

He said consumers could be asked to shoulder two-thirds to three-quarters of the cost of the additional duties.

On average, she said, women do two-thirds of the housework and three-fourths of the child care.

But ethnicity combined with poverty can be a barrier: two-thirds of out-of-school girls around the world belong to ethnic minority groups.

They comprise two-thirds of the bank holding company assets in the United States, the Fed said in a fact sheet.

The community represents two thirds of the total number in Vietnam and the "only confirmed viable population" of the variety worldwide.

Of those who did seek help, almost two thirds felt doctors were too ready to prescribe drugs.

I could rotate it by a third of a turn, or a half a turn, or put it back down on its image, or two thirds of a turn.

In a country where two-thirds of the population lives on less than $1 a day, a poorly paid job is better than none at all.

A clown weights 60 lb more than a trapeze artist. The trapeze artist weighs two thirds as much as the clown. How much does each weigh?

The number of men and women in employment is now almost equal, with more than two-thirds of mothers now in work.

Two-thirds of illiterates are women, and the rate of employment among women is two-thirds that of men.

About two-thirds of college students play video games, found a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project think-tank.

As you know, two thirds of the country goes underwater for about four to six months of the year.

So far, State Street has paid out two-thirds of the assets of a $625m legal reserve fund, set up in late 2007.

Although the organization is headquartered in the United States, two-thirds of Habitat construction takes place in other countries.

A. Certainly three days a week, so at least two-thirds of the time.

More than two-thirds of them have now been brought to the surface, and Mr Golborne said he expected the operation to go smoothly to the end.

How much of the remaining two-thirds or so of Google's China revenue is sustainable is less clear.

Within two years, approximately two-thirds of the fund's assets had shifted to Europe and I had hired several analysts to help me.

For two-thirds of its history, Homo sapiens lived exclusively in Africa. Only now are the details of that period becoming clear.

Shockingly, two-thirds of that stemmed from supposedly triple-A CDOs, which by then were deemed to be worth only half of their face value.

In his recommendations, Banerjee suggested that the use of the drugs could be cut by two-thirds over the course of the next three years.

Two-thirds of men and women had cheated online, while three-quarters admitted having an affair having had an affair in real life.

Before it had traversed two thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the barricade.

In contrast, roughly two-thirds of the Spanish and German respondents and a majority of the British rated trade unions important.

In fact, in the beginning stages, I estimate that two-thirds of the time I was unable to get past the conflicting energy.

Two-thirds of that 1. 8% went into business inventories rather than sales to consumers or other final buyers.

Two-thirds of it was due to food prices, and much of that was due to pork.

He says that to subsidize the operation, around two-thirds of the older buildings would be rented out for shops and restaurants.

Resolutions at special board meetings shall be passed with the consent of at least two thirds of the directors.

In those areas the typical wage could be two-thirds that of the more developed coastal provinces, or less.

At Chicago Booth, two-thirds of this year's MBAs already have an offer in hand, down slightly from the 70 per cent of a year ago.

The income of high school dropouts is about two-thirds that of Americans with a high school diploma.

Two thirds of the total box-office receipts so far have been generated abroad.

During breaching the whale uses its powerful tail flukes to lift nearly two-thirds of its body out of the water in a giant leap.

Scholars, experts and impartial citizens shall make up no less than two thirds of the total committee membership.

Or the legislatures of two thirds of the states may ask Congress to call a national convention to discuss and draft amendments.

In one classroom of a school in the western district of Sauri, two-thirds of the children are AIDS orphans.

These commodity funds account for almost two-thirds of the total, but funds investing foreign exchange reserves have been growing faster.

The PP's control of two-thirds of regions and 40% of town halls should allow him to push reform throughout the system.

In a recent British study of sudden infant deaths, almost two-thirds of those that were unexplained occurred when the bed was being shared.

According to an ABC poll two-thirds of the American public believe the war is no longer worth fighting.

He used only 39% of the gasoline he would have used in a standard Prius, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly two-thirds.

It also showed that two thirds of companies expected positive growth in the industry over the next two years.

The opinion poll also revealed that the cost of food is a worldwide worry with two thirds saying it is one of their top food concerns.

It is to be noted that the cereal grains contain about two-thirds carbohydrate, which is in the form of digestible starches and sugars.

He says we still have two more stages to go with more than two-thirds of the voting still to be accomplished, so the die is not cast.

One of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for two thousand fifteen is to reduce death rates in young children by two-thirds.

He said that two-thirds of the cost could be met by trimming fat on federal programmes, but gave no new details.

Between a half and two thirds of every year group take up the offer.

Of these, two thirds claimed that the main motive was a fear of being judged financially on where they shopped.

Pet ownership has climbed steadily ever since, and today about two-thirds of American households include at least one pet.

Women comprise more than half the word's population, 70% of the world's poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write.

Even so, women worldwide perform two-thirds of the work but earn just one-third of the income, she said.

About two-thirds of the way through the episode, it became clear that this patient was House himself.

Mr Du said the bottom two-thirds of companies recorded an average margin of just 0. 74 per cent.

With nearly two-thirds of all Internet users in the United States signed up on Facebook, the company has focused on international expansion.

President George W. Bush signed the treaty in 2004 but did not send it to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is needed for ratification.

Instead, the total number of commissioners will be capped at a rotating two-thirds of the number of member states.

He begins by writing that about two-thirds of the findings published in the top medical journals are refuted within a few years.

Since then it has recovered two-thirds of that drop; production is now just 5% below its peak level (see chart 1).

At heart the company remains primarily a purveyor of old-world media: some two-thirds of its sales are from books, CDs and DVDs.

At least two thirds of those implementers agree to have the scenario published.

A two-thirds majority is needed in the parliament for a transitional government of national unity to be a reality.

Moreover, expansion of the UNSC requires the support of two-thirds of the General Assembly.

It took a simple majority vote to increase public pensions, but it would take a two-thirds supermajority to raise taxes to pay for them.

The Denver area has seen 58 flu-related pneumonia cases, and at least two-thirds of those sickened were aged 20 to 60, she said.

When they were asked whether banking regulation was better in the U. S. or China, about two-thirds of those who responded chose China.

Assuming that two smaller parties also get into the grand national assembly, that should be enough to deny AK its two-thirds majority.

But the costlier Edge configuration I tested had a larger battery than the base unit, so would likely last only two-thirds as long.

Two-thirds of the world's mink farming and 70% of its fox farming takes place in other EU countries.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are now overweight or obese, and a similar epidemic of diabetes is following in the wake of this condition.

All day around I found that two thirds of the day time I was sleepy.

The fastest growth came from private-equity, which raised $53 billion in three months, two-thirds more than a year earlier.

A referendum requires the support of two-thirds of parliament, but the Kuomintang and its allies hold only a slim majority of the 221 seats.

Two-thirds of steel has been used up to now.

Almost two-thirds expect the economy to be better but not fully recovered a year from now.

An opinion poll on July 21st found more than two-thirds agreeing Australia should cut its emissions, even if other countries did not.

But two-thirds of this effect may be offset by the greater release of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the sea.

Asia, home to two-thirds of the world's people, is as much a European fantasy as a real place.

In exit polls, Obama won a majority among voters making under $50, 000 a year and a formidable two-thirds of all male voters.

Weak demand from consumers, whose spending accounts for two-thirds of output, is one of the strongest headwinds facing the economy.

The survey revealed two thirds of women felt guilty as they did not catch up with their friends often enough.

If the President vetoes a bill, Congress may attempt to override the veto. This requires a two-thirds vote by both the House and Senate.

Two-thirds of the American public supports the decision requiring health insurance plans to cover the full cost of contraception.

First, Google has been a dominant force in the industry with almost two-thirds of the search ad market.

GDP per capita stands at two-thirds that of the Big Four EU economies.

In the sky which covers two-thirds of the tableau, the setting sun penetrates the thick layers of clouds and radiates colorful sunshine.

In Spain the building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds in a year, to 14. 8% in January.

According to a person close to the talks, the proportion of funding might be one-third IMF and two-thirds eurozone.

In 2009, foreign students earned up to two-thirds of the doctorates in physics and engineering awarded by U. S. schools of higher education.

Available data suggest that in developed countries, Tension Type Headache affects two-thirds of men and over 80% of women.

Kenya, Mozambique and UR Tanzania spent at least two-thirds of their funds in 2005, as compared with less than half in 2004.

Almost two-thirds of those surveyed by McKinsey say this will happen over the next five years.

He was two-thirds of the way through a doctorate in economics and had planned to join his father's bank in Utah when he finished.

Well above two thirds of these deaths, often associated with inappropriate feeding practices, occur during the first year of life.

Scotland, whose fishermen catch about two-thirds of the fish landed at British ports, is already trying out a new approach.

Once its primary concern seemed to be to preserve jobs in Germany. Now two-thirds of its employees are abroad.

She lost two-thirds of her fortune but clung on to billionaire status with her remaining $1. 2bn.

As the final results were being tallied it appeared he had won almost two thirds of the total votes cast.

One-half to two-thirds of men with osteoporosis have secondary osteoporosis.

Viewed from Earth, NGC 6744 is about two-thirds the size of a full moon, but it's so faint you can't see it without a backyard telescope.

In open addressing, performance degrades badly as the load factor increases above one half or two thirds.

It would take two-thirds of the Senate vote to do so. So Tyler proposed other action to make Texas a state.

One third of those without children said a son, two-thirds had no preference and only a residual said a daughter.

He was convinced that two thirds of a physician's fee were generated out of imaginary complaints.

"About two-thirds of the patients . . . had at least one underlying condition that put them at risk, " Schuchat said.

Two-thirds of Americans said the economy will affect their holiday plans.

They are, in other words, expecting some kind of debt restructuring, like the restructuring that reduced Argentina's debt by two-thirds.

This is intended to help the party retain a two-thirds majority in the lower house and prepare for him to become premier.

Electronics, which account for a quarter to two-thirds of exports from most of the larger economies in the region, have been hard hit.

Field studies show that these simple steps could prevent at least two-thirds of deaths in newborns each year.

Investors also fret that rising energy costs could hurt U. S. consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of the U. S. economy.

The profile of the page requires that two thirds (1000 likes) come from South Korea and that the rest is evenly spread across the world.

The plant made fully two thirds of the world's supply of a chemical used to seal computer chips into packages.

I think that if one says two-thirds progress since last Friday, that would be a fair statement, " he said. "

In an impassioned speech , Professor Yunus said two-thirds of the world's population had no access to the formal financial system .

A new constitution has promised to let two-thirds of a toothless advisory council be elected. But the poll has been put off.

Qantas is planning to dump two-thirds of its first-class airline seats as part of a radical $400 million overhaul of its long-haul fleet .

The country uses a quarter of the world's coal reserves and depends on it to provide more than two thirds of its energy needs.

We are the world's ninth largest energy producer and with net energy exports accounting for around two-thirds of energy we produce.

This is still way too many, as more than two-thirds of these deaths are entirely preventable through inexpensive and highly effective tools.

Between them, according to the church's own data, those regions account for some two-thirds of baptised Catholics.

In finance, energy and natural resources, they control at least two-thirds of production.

Mr Musharraf must hope his opponents will at least fail to win a two-thirds parliamentary majority.

any federal law or regulation could be repealed if the legislatures of two-thirds of the states voted to do so.

Retail sales are a key component of growth for a country where consumer spending makes up about two-thirds of total economic activity.

Second-quarter net income, to be reported today, is expected to be almost two-thirds better than the first quarter.

Two thirds of the British public fear that the UK is heading for another recession, a survey showed today.

The Democrats currently hold a two-thirds super-majority in both houses of the General Assembly.

Fully two-thirds of women and half of the men said they were 'very' or 'extremely' willing to marry for money.

Three years later, he asked them to do so again. Fifty percent of these subsequent reports were more than two-thirds wrong.

More han two thirds of the birth centers in the United States offer water birth as an available option.

A public opinion poll by the AP this past week showed nearly two thirds of Americans disapprove how President Bush was handling the war.

The " Garden State" still manages to produce two thirds of the world's eggplants .

The output of this factory is two - thirds larger than that of that factory .

In Botswana and South Africa, food accounts for a fifth of the consumer price index; in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh it accounts for two-thirds.

By another measure, Chinese are healthier, with only a quarter of the population overweight, compared to two-thirds of Americans.

But I accept your proposal and we'll be responsible for the international marketing of two-thirds of the mobile phones.

Any decision by the conference must be taken by a two-thirds majority of the participating States.

With around two-thirds of the world's eco-systems damaged, the report says it is not enough to simply protect those that remain.

Two-thirds of its floor space is overseas and South Korea is one of its biggest non-UK markets.

Then, during the Christmas holidays, came the brutal Soviet invasion, which wiped out any chance for a two-thirds vote of approval.

To put the vote on the ballot the traditional way, Mr Brown needs a supermajority (two-thirds) in the legislature.

Since 1980 the obesity rate in the United States has doubled; two-thirds of the population is now overweight.

Approval of the treaty by the U. S. Senate requires a vote of two-thirds of the membership, or 67 votes.

The program cost roughly $1 million to develop for the summer, with two-thirds of the money coming from private donations.

In sub-Saharan Africa, less than two thirds of pupils reach the last grade in the majority of countries.

At Japanese firms the return on equity is typically half to two-thirds of that at American and European ones.

Yet the Wangs see no good alternatives to stashing nearly two-thirds of their monthly income in the bank.

More than two thirds of the nation want to see the launch of Chang'e I, China's first lunar orbiter live on TV, according to a survey.

About two-thirds of the fellows study in the United States, Canada or Europe. The others study in their home country or region.

And no Person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Today two-thirds of American adults are obese or overweight, as are a quarter to a third of American children.

Health experts recommend limiting egg yolks, as one yolk contains about two-thirds of a healthy adult's suggested allotment of cholesterol.

The inconvenience peeves two-thirds of travellers, according to Which? , a British consumer group.

Lord Coe has promised that at least two-thirds of the original 1. 9 million applicants will get a ticket.

Back in real life, child homicides have fallen by more than two-thirds since the 1970s.

China's greatest economic success has been the creation of a vibrant private sector that accounts for two-thirds of its GDP.

Two-thirds of the children with autism traits hadn't been diagnosed before.

The Nilson Report, a research firm, says that the industry is still only two-thirds of the way through booking losses.

A sitting member that commits gross human-rights violations can be suspended by a two-thirds vote of the assembly.

Two-thirds of its residents are formerly homeless people, whose rent is paid by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In an online poll for Le Monde, almost two-thirds of respondents agreed that the handball "discredits France's qualification" .

Now they spend as much as two thirds of every working day in each other's presence.

In fact, out of American adults who use the Internet, Pew found that nearly two-thirds use social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.

However, two thirds of men and women who lived to 97 or more contracted these diseases later in life.

The incumbent may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of parliament, with the concurrence of the Supreme Court.

"Historically we have been at about half the money raised in the US; now we are getting towards two-thirds, " said Mr Echarri.

At least two-thirds of the difficulties in homicidal cases are caused by innocent asses lying for all they're worth.

The group is two-thirds owned by the Norwegian state but Mr Lund insisted it was a "non-political entity" .

A mere 5 per cent of the global population speak the rest and two thirds of these lingoes are in danger of extinction.

The Yangtze lies in a rice belt, providing about a fifth of China's economic activity and two-thirds of its inland shipping.

They found that about two-thirds of dog owners took their pets for regular walks, defined as lasting at least 10 minutes.

Nearly two thirds (63 percent) of those in the random telephone survey said that they agreed with this model of a passively recorded memory.

Almost two thirds of the money is spent on urban areas covering only one third of the country's population.

Minimum wages have risen by an average of nearly 22% in the two-thirds of China's provinces which have adjusted them this year.

Spending typically accounts for two-thirds of U. S. economic activity and is closely watched as a sign of fiscal recovery.

The karate- gi trousers must cover at least two-thirds of the shin.

Overall, two-thirds of participants felt connected to the outdoors, while one in ten said they had no link at all.

They represent approximately two-thirds of our beer volume and where the majority of our marketing resources are invested.

Close to two-thirds of these reserves are invested in U. S. Treasury debt.

A Gallup poll found that two-thirds of Americans favour raising taxes on those making more than $250, 000 a year.

More than two-thirds of the billion people surviving on less than a dollar a day are female.

Two-thirds of the refining capacity additions are expected to be in Asia and the Middle East.

Agriculture is responsible for between half and two-thirds of emissions of two especially toxic greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide.

Among the five hundred experts who attended this international symposium, two-thirds were Chinese.

Ever since Viktor Orban's Fidesz party won two-thirds of the parliamentary seats in April's general election, the signals have been ominous.

The greenback accounts for around two-thirds of global currency reserves, compared with a quarter for the euro.

Recent polls show that around two-thirds of registered voters want to bring the troops home within a year.

Two-thirds of us have walked away from buying something in a shop because we were so fed up with queuing, the survey also found.

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Among the Bric countries, China is by far the largest, accounting for about two-thirds of such trade.

Foreign-currency borrowing, 95% of it in Swiss francs, accounts for over two-thirds of total lending.

An annual survey of consumer spending by Booz & Company suggests that two-thirds of Americans are trading down and buying cheaper items.

Over two thirds of under-five child deaths are due to diseases that are preventable and treatable through simple, affordable interventions.

In Latvia about two-thirds of private loans have been taken out in euros.

Further out, airlines face threats from high-speed railways linking two-thirds of China's cities within a few years.

In two thirds of cases parents reported that their child's sex education was provided by their usual teacher rather than a specialist.

And a new study finds that for two thirds of adults with verified high blood pressure, a single BP measurement was not reliable.

At least half, if not two-thirds, were international students.

The world was a vastly different place to what it was two-thirds of a century ago, Mr Rudd said.

Slow agricultural growth is a concern for policymakers as some two-thirds of India's people depend on rural employment for a living.

Yet the bill passed the next day, with the two-thirds majority needed to change India's constitution.

Even so, Repsol may not easily surrender control of an asset that now accounts for two-thirds of its output.

Even so, he failed to retain the two-thirds majority he had said was vital for his regime's future.

The size of each circle is set so that two-thirds of historical official forecast errors over a 5-year sample fall within the circle.

Computers account for about two-thirds of the company's sales and profit.

UV filters have about two-thirds of the Indian market, with reverse osmosis and chemical filters accounting for the rest.

Two-thirds of the venture's $475min start-up capital was provided by the company.

Two-thirds of Russians consider the concentration of power in Mr Putin's hands to be a good thing.

Mr Rudd has always backed the war but support for it among Australians has dropped steeply from the two-thirds of 2001.

In the lower house, the DPJ lacks the magic two-thirds majority that would have allowed it to bypass the upper house.

All eyes were fixed on a narrow test tube -- two-thirds filled with a viscous black liquid -- clamped between two couplings on the machine.

Two-thirds had some form of third-level education, while a further 26 per cent had a secondary level education.

Despite this, nearly two thirds of teachers (65. 4%) felt that job satisfaction was the main factor that kept them in the profession.

The total land area and the total floor area of the legal building they own should be more than two thirds.

Some two-thirds of American pension funds with investment charters limit themselves to buying bonds rated by the industry's triopoly.

Nearly two thirds of men drive cars with an engine bigger than 1. 6 litres, compared with 42 per cent of women.

Two-thirds of those polled said they were unsure whether to invest more in the region; one-third planned to cut investment.

But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

So women on average still get less than two-thirds of a man's pay packet.

No future president would be safe, they said, if opposed by a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate.

Holland has two-thirds the inhabitants of the state of New York, which is four times the size of Holland.

The poll also showed more than two-thirds of consumers plan to trade down on holidays.

As long as the European industry is running at about two-thirds of its productive potential, prices will stay soft.

More than half of male inmates and roughly two-thirds of female inmates have symptoms of a serious mental illness.

The decisions of the Extraordinary General Assembly are taken by a two-thirds majority of the members present and represented.

The UN estimates that nearly two-thirds of refugees today fall into this category, up from less than half in the early 1990s.

Another finding of the survey: Two-thirds of Internet users look online for information about a specific disease or medical condition.

Banks would bear two-thirds of the losses, it said, with insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds and others taking the rest.

In the United States fully two thirds of harvested grains, which could greatly relieve world hunger, are fed to farmed animals.

By the end of 2006, party cells had been established in more than two-thirds of larger non-state enterprises.

It makes up two-thirds of our bodies, just like the map of the world.

Most school districts spend two-thirds of that on payroll and overhead.

Hence, two-thirds of the senators are always people with some legislative experience at the national level.

Such approval shall require a majority of two-thirds of the votes cast by the delegates present.

Rising fuel prices are straining household budgets, damping the spending that drives more than two-thirds of the nation's economic activity.

Two-thirds of the world's people are still living under low standards, and because of that they do not yet constitute a viable market.

Before long, two-thirds of the state-owned industries were removed from government control and sold off into the private sector.

Two-thirds of Chinese have never been online and nearly half of China's Web surfers are under 25.

Of these attacks, more than two thirds of the victims were killed and eaten.

Managers at the dairy say about two-thirds of their product goes to officials, state-owned enterprises, embassies and international schools.

Still, Cisco is the leader, owning as it does about two-thirds of the market for networking equipment.

Two-thirds of the men had the feeding tube removed during the follow-up period, with only 15 percent retaining the tube after 18 months.