by half

"Say we wanted to know how much we'd need to reduce human-derived emissions of methane to cut its climate influence by half, " Montzka said.

A sixth of a turn, followed by a third of a turn, the combined effect is as if I had just rotated it by half a turn in one go.

Sat up in bed in bed legs drop by half a minute, and then get out of bed.

Tony Blair has hinted at a slower retreat, saying British troop numbers may be cut by half within a year.

All this may sound too clever by half to some ears, as if linguistic sleight-of-hand can somehow overcome deep disagreements.

The gulf between the two clubs was apparent from the start and, by half-time, it had become an exercise in damage-limitation for Leeds.

Even such scenes did not take a big proportion in the movie, seemingly so long to describe by half of my MV.

Elton decided to walk up to her place and put off by half - an -hour or so the important business which lay before him.

Lobster prices in Australia have fallen by half to less than A$25 a kilogram from A$50 since the trade row began, he said.

As the mortgages do not generally have the space to float downward, Bank of Shanghai had fallen by half since the same points.

Austrian Airlines management has said that if the company had its own operations, will have the number of aircraft now has reduced by half.

result of Purslow's wide-ranging search - and potentially could have slashed the club's debt by half, looks set to be rejected.

It is the quiet predator that grows by buying all or parts of those firms that are stupid enough, or too clever-by-half enough, to fail.

He projects that its revenues will grow by a quarter over the next five years and its earnings per share will increase by half.

The number of immigrants has grown by half in the past decade, but the proportion is still well below any other big rich country.

When the Dow industrial average fell by half in a few days in October 1929, it was not just rich financiers who lost their shirts.

Two or three times we had clear opportunities and the game should have been beyond Chelsea by half time.

Late emperor did not complete the cause pioneered by half, but midway died.

The report says malaria deaths have decreased in several countries, and a few African nations have reduced deaths by half.

The number of animals used in experiments has fallen by half in the past 30 years, at least in those countries that record such things.

By the time the lessons of diversification had been learned, the population in Youngstown had fallen by half.

If I doubled the area of the sheet, the stack would only compress by half as much.

If the information provided by the alert were built into the main Find dialog, the user's burden would be reduced by half.

In fact the expected reward reduced the amount of spontaneous drawing the children did by half.

Los Angeles officials said the ban will allow the region to reduce plastic bag waste by half.

a: he thought he could get mr. green's money in his pocket but he lost all, he was too clever by half.

Gross domestic product plunged by half, and hunger killed up to a million.

Professor Zou said he believed that a proposal to cut total global emissions by half by 2050 would be impossible to achieve technologically.

The pin rectangle encloses the grid intersection point on all four sides by half the minimum metal width of that pin shape layer.

Beijing city officials have been considering a plan to cut the number of cars on its roads by half during the Games period.

The heat conduction equation of this model is solved by half implicit difference scheme iteration.

White-collar workers are most likely to be affected by the merger. In the last 10 years, the workforce has been reduced by half.

Lucidique went into the palace. The screams had died down now; to be replaced by half-whispered prayers.

To get around your difficulty, Mr. Peter, I'd suggest that you reduce your order by half. You can send in an additional order later.

He fears Wall Street could fall by half, or worse, over the next four years before this bear is finally slain.

an unhappy shared by the two, the unhappy decrease at least by half.

Sequencing DNA has come down in price by half annually, from $10 per base pair in 1990 to under a penny today.

In the past decade Toyota has raised capacity by half to 10m units a year, overtaking General Motors as the world's largest carmaker.

Profit even tumbled by half in the bank's deposit-gathering business.

By comparison, the percentage of smartphones that ran Symbian fell by half to 21% in Europe from 40% a year ago, according to IDC.

Since then, he reports that the mortality rate of his chickens has dropped by half.

In Mongolia and Lesotho, grain harvests have shrunk by half or more over the last few decades.

In his post, Mr Thrun claims that automated cars could ultimately cut the number of lives lost in road accidents each year by half.

On 18 March, the central bank boosted bank reserves - the amount of cash banks have to put aside - by half a percentage point, to 20%.

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half of the number of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.

Conventional wisdom says that you gain far more in working as a team than you lose by diluted by half before you start.

Over the last fifty years, sperm counts in men have fallen by half in Europe.

By the end of the winter the Swedish army had been reduced almost by half.

There are reports that the value of some may have dropped by half, a decline on a par with some of the worst-hit parts of America.

May I suggest that you cut down the quantity of your order by half?

Even if they are more like the Germans or the British, it will rise by half, according to IHS Global Insight.

To get around your difficulty, Mr. Brown, I'd suggest that you reduce your order by half. You can send in an addi tional order later.

It was the Dutchman's first game since being manhandled by half the Arsenal team.

The number of women on the Supreme Court has recently fallen by half, from two to one, thanks to Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.

One by one, he pulled up2 the young plants by half an inch. When he finished pulling, it was already morning.

After ten minutes of pacing up and down, he went to the weavers' room, followed by half of his court.

It is part of a major reform of the military that has seen conscription abolished and the army reduced by half.

On January 16th the Bank of Mexico, the independent central bank, cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point (to 7. 75%).

Under an earlier deal with the European Commission, WestLB had already agreed to cut its balance-sheet by half and sell itself off by 2011.

In those given Viagra, the strength of the heart's contractions was reduced by half, from 150 per cent to 75 per cent.

Half-life: the number of radioactive nuclei decay and reduced by half the time required for the initial value.

YQRFSR injections cut the number of spasms by half, indicating it was probably working through the pathway.

She was too lazy to get up in time and missed her flight by half an hour.

Ground units caught inside of this field have their movement speed, attack speed, and ability cast times slowed by half.

The amount of land set aside for garlic-planting is said to have fallen by half in 2008 in response to low prices.

Keynesians will argue that Japan's fiscal stimulus was not wrong in principle, but badly implemented and undermined by half-hearted policy.

Sirry Hjaltested, a pre-school teacher who joins in the Saturday protests, says that her grocery bills have gone up by half in a few months.

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

First among them is the pledge to reduce by half the proportion of people in the world living on an income of less than one dollar a day.

of English-Gothic architecture popular during the Tudor period; characterized by half- timbered houses.

After an earnings slip sent its shares plunging by half in early 2000, P&G set out to revive and refashion its innovation pipeline.

The server farm has a single entrance and is outfitted by half-meter thick metal doors and backup generators pulled from German submarines.

The Federal Reserve has slashed a key interest rate by half a percentage point, as it seeks to revive the economy.

a style of English-Gothic architecture popular during the Tudor period; characterized by half- timbered houses.

The resolution of the board of supervisors shall be adopted by half or more of the supervisors.

Efforts to cut by half the number of plastic carrier bags supermarkets give their customers have narrowly failed.

Living in a stimulating, social environment was found to reduce abdominal fat in mice by half over four weeks, even if they ate more.

When he reached the flat by half-past five, it was still dark.

Cutting this figure by half may not be realistic in the short-term, but student protests may continue if measures are taken soon.

Unlike the power station's emissions, though, those of the health service have been increasing: they have grown by half since 1990.

The U. S. Navy wants to cut fuel consumption in non-combat vehicles by half in five years.

My snap judgment is to say I don't like it because it lessens the value of a Best Picture nomination by half.

Kanayo Nwanze, the head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, reckons that such losses could be reduced by half.

Planar Energy expects to reduce capital costs by half compared with solid-state battery manufacturing using high-vacuum machinery.

One reason for the frightening fourth-quarter contraction was plummeting exports to the mainland, which fell by half.

On January 15th the European Central Bank cut interest rates by half a percentage point, to 2%, having hinted at a pause only a month ago.

Porsche AG's sales fell by half last month from a year earlier, to 1, 427 vehicles.

Since the autumn, the benchmark Shanghai-A-share index had fallen by half before the tax was changed.

The numerical solution of the frequency equation by half- separation method , was studied.

With your help, we are working to cut by half the number of malaria-related deaths in 15 African nations.

Its share price, which had fallen from more than $12 in June 2008 to under $2 in January 2009, suddenly rose by half.

If you save only the cards and not the envelopes, you reduce the storage space needed by half.

Efficient irrigation, for instance, would reduce freshwater withdrawals almost by half.

Nevertheless, calculations suggest that if today's trends continue, the alkalinity of the ocean will have fallen by half a pH unit by 2100.

In a very few minutes he was joined by half a dozen sailors, dragging a rope ladder.

That could push down farmland values by half, a recipe for ruin for those who have borrowed against the value of their property.

They were joined, as you very well know, by half of the Order before long!

"If costs go up by half, it's about the same price as in the U. S. And you don't have 30 days on the water in shipping, " he says.

Polls show them increasing their share of the vote by half since the 2008 election.

The support comes at a cost: the deal dilutes existing shareholders' capital by half and the dividend will shrivel.

Baltimore has gotten high marks and lots of news coverage for reducing both the dropout rate and truancy rate by half in just three years.

In the end, negotiations settled on a bond exchange that will cut the face value of Greece's debt to private creditors by half.

But when penalties are introduced for slacking, worker efficiency is enhanced, reducing shirking by half.

Chandler too has felt its share of pain as Arizona's housing boom crumbled; home prices are down by half and foreclosures have soared.

The Federal Reserves' decision to cut the short- term interest rate by half a percentage point gave the financial market a boost.

Once the yeast enters the anaerobic growth phase , each budding cycle depletes the amount of lipids by half .

Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, and international trade plunged by half to two-thirds.

In adding a quarter to the dollar-a-day poverty line, the researchers may cut its popular appeal by half.

The UK is cutting them by half for solar panel installations; companies are warning of job losses and shrinking revenues.

A daily dose of citrus fruits may cut the risk of mouth, throat, and stomach cancers by half, Australian researchers found.

I was at the Heights by half-past six, and generally stayed till half past eight, and then galloped home.

W: To get around your difficulty, Mr. Brown, I'd sug gest that you reduce your order by half.

Leaders of the world's biggest economies agreed Sunday to cut their deficits by half or more by twenty thirteen.

In a test of 66 patients with the blood disease multiple myeloma, a full 100 percent of the subjects saw their cancer reduced by half.

They all slashed by half their personality and weaknesses, and then make do with only the full.

Its charter business, operated largely by its Lauda Air subsidiary, also could be cut by half.

It says that several steps need to be taken immediately to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015.

Last month an alliance of operators, representing 70% of European mobile users, said they would cut their wholesale roaming prices by half.

America is so rich. . . and so wasteful. . . that it could probably cut its spending by half and most people would still be fat and sassy.

One by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch.

its financial engineering is too clever by half and vulnerable to unintended consequences.

Will transform Cao Lane market center area is surrounded by half, five residents ( dangerous ).

By 2050 world grain output will have to rise by half and meat production must double to meet demand.

Although manufacturers added jobs in June, the average workweek shortened by half an hour, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.

It 's exasperating to lose a train by half a minute .

The analysis also assumes that a percentage point of fiscal tightening would lower growth by half as much.

If you expand the waist of these pants by half an inch, they will fit perfectly.

See that everything is ready by half past ten.

Oil and gas are still relatively expensive by historical standards, but the prices have fallen by half since July.

Drinking three or more cups of coffee a day may cut the risk of colon cancer in women by half.

The new canal will reduce the distance between the two cities by half.

With American aid and a new wealth tax he has expanded the security forces by half.

The fundamental objective of the program is to reduce poverty on the archipelago by half by 2010.

More recently, Shanghai's property prices fell by a third from May 2005 to the end of 2006. Many developments downtown fell by half.

More crucial: the effectiveness of the drugs is reduced by half every 15 minutes the patient is waiting, Mitchell said.

Lastly bring sauce and spareribs to the boil reducing sauce by half. Serve hot with vegetable rice.

That could reduce by half the amount of land historically hospitable for wine grapes.

As a percentage of federal spending, we have cut earmarks by half in this bill.

You and she divide this work, half by half.

In this multiplier, modified radix 4 booth encoding algorithm is used to reduce the number of partial products by half.

Italy had a comfortable three-goal lead over France by half-time.

This week they increased banks' reserve requirement ratio by half a percentage point.

This is a good reason for not lifting rates by half a point, but not enough to prevent any tightening at all.

Smartphone sales are this year expected to increase by half and tablet shipments nearly quadruple, according to analysts.

"Our Halloween sales have been falling by half every year since 2002, " Franck Mathais of toys retailer La Grande Recre told the newspaper.

Though it now costs around $500 in Africa, Erik Hersman, a tech expert in Nairobi, expects its price to fall by half in the coming year.

The experiment showed that the grain degree is increased by half or more.

Calm and peaceful mood, unfortunately, will be reduced by half, the pain will ease a lot, fatigue and fatigue were also dispersed.

PetroChina, the biggest Chinese company, has fallen by half since its November peak.

The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by 2015.

Employment regulations were also mentioned by half the businesses as burdensome, with 29 per cent citing planning red tape.

For product quality and service quality, we all know its importance, but always because of this reason that almost, by half a beat slower.

For instance, they removed their [barriers] [to] tropical fruits and cut [excise] tax by half on 15 categories of tropical fruit.

"I can't reduce the budget by half a trillion dollars and frankly not increase risk, " Panetta said.

Speculative investment in the metal has been growing steadily over the past year, yet its price has fallen by half.

In fractious northern Uganda cereal output is likely to fall by half.

As a result, nitrogen and carbon monoxide is reduced by half, no dryers life in any way adversely affected.

And after the prime rate declined by half a point, and the Dow rose by thirty-two, guess what happened to Goose and Fox?

Remember, going up an f-stop cuts the amount of light by half.

The number of fish species in Poyang Lake has already fallen by half.

In high-income countries, injury-related deaths among children under the age of 15 years were reduced by half between 1970 and 1995.

The credit crunch has frozen most new development, which means that new apartment completions should fall by half in 2011.

Currently, the leading methods of sampling generally choose the instance or instances that can reduce the version space by half.

So, the hypervisor would dynamically reduce the CPU entitlement by half.

Kyumoto noted that the past three meetings have run over the intended two-hour time slot by half an hour.

Initial non timed programming test followed by half day on site interviewed.

Allowing for the train's being late, we should be back by half past ten.

With a slight tone that's always slower by half a beat.

In 2007 the United States exported $21. 7 billion-worth of scrap; if current trends continue that figure could fall by half, or worse.

Amazingly, it reduced by half the number of babies dying.

Merchants implementing anti-fraud software for the first time commonly see losses from fraud reduced by half.

That move alone would reduce the increasing levels of carbon dioxide on Earth by half.

Its auto market has been spurred since the government reduced by half the sales tax on small vehicles.

Gas is increasingly important for power generation and heating and the global market is expected to grow by half by 2030.

BASF, the world's biggest chemical company, saw its profits drop by half as both volumes and prices slumped.

Foreign investment fell by half in the first five months of the year.

Despite the opportunity, transfers have fallen by half, Mr. Shaw said.

Bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat until liquid has reduced by half, about 2 hours.

Vivid, violent dreams can portend brain disorders by half a century, a new study finds.

Add 2 tablespoons of water in it Don't add water all at once. Add them half spoon by half spoon, kneading until a dough forms.

From day one to day six, incremental sales dropped by half. From day six to day 14, incremental sales dropped by two-thirds.

The overarching goal is to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty by half by 2015.

Two are very high, but the obvious one over another person by half a head.

Despite millions raised and spent in the last decade or so, wild tigers may have declined by half over that time.

Sales are up by half and the store is packed with expatriates and hai gui (returnee Chinese).

His heart rate may exceed 180 beats per minute and his blood pressure could rise by half.

Last week, the airline cut its overseas service by half because of a sharp reduction in traffic.

On the negative side, purchases of Treasury securities are down by half from the first five months of 2004, the recent peak level.

Thailand cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point.

Korea and Japan saw their growth rates fall by half after hosting the Olympics.

Dragonomics forecasts that in 2008 the contribution of net exports to China's growth will shrink by half.

All workers must be at their posts by half past.

In 8 hours : The carbon monoxide ( a toxic gas ) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal .

Brazil cut the overnight lending rate by half a percentage point earlier this month, and more cuts are expected.

The subsidised group saw deaths fall by half versus the control group.

If fertility ratesremain as low as they have been, Italy's population will fall by half in 50years.

The most popular fake-question is not dumb but too-clever-by-half.

As with other economies, it is soaring here and has jumped by half a million to about 2 million and is heading rapidly for 3 million.

Environmental Protection-Proved by experiment, reducing by half of Curb Weight can make cost of fuel almost reduce by half.

The number of overnight visitors has dropped by half from the peak in the late 1960s.

Last month the central bank cut short-term interest rates by half a point.

Travel time to markets and district centers was cut by half after road rehabilitation.

Meanwhile, the relative price of corn (maize) to rice, which is much more favoured, has jumped by half.

Nevertheless, calculations suggest that if today'strends continue, the alkalinity of the ocean will have fallen by half a pH unitby 2100.

The president's five-year, $1. 2 billion malaria initiative is meant to cut malaria deaths by half in 15 African countries.

Such laws in California have cut diesel-soot emissions in that state by half.

News reports say Mr. Obama intends to cut the deficit by half over four years.

She reckoned she had cut her cost by half.

All told, the scheme cuts the costs of remittances by half or more.

consolidation phase effect, by " half delivery, attention to routine health care, can achieve long-term non-recurrence. "

Quantity of your order by half?

As we've written before, the number of women on the Forbes list of richest Americans has fallen by half since 1986.

Meanwhile the market expects the Federal Reserve will cut rates by half a point tomorrow to 1 per cent.

We should be aiming to be ahead by half time and then push for a comprehensive victory.

Poland's stockmarket is up by nearly 40% since its low in February, Hungary's has risen by half and Russia's by nearly 90%.

Between 1984 and 2003, the number of independent banks and savings associations shrunk by half, according to one study.

Output of crude oil has fallen by half since oil and natural gas were nationalised by Mr Morales in 2006.

Blue- collar workers' hourly pay has been frozen and their hours cut by half .

The Federal Reserve in an October 8 emergency move lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 1. 5 percent.

The cost of travel in such season raises by half.

We accept your offer only with the quantity reduced by half.

As a result, the firm's net income fell by half in the year, leaving it with a thin profit margin of 2. 2%.

To that end, she wants them to pledge to cut their 1990 levels of greenhouse-gas emissions by half by 2050.

With the new jugs, the crates are gone and the shipping can cut labor by half.

But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Then I found myself surrounded by half a dozen boys.

Then he just moved back to the home office, home, so that the large expenditures by half, but also have no in*e.

He says food exports from China, a traditional supplier, dropped by half in the past few years.

regulations require crematoria to cut mercury emissions by half by 2012.

Competition from Taobao. com, Alibaba's auction business, saw eBay's market share decline by half and it shut down its site in 2006.

Polio will soon be eradicated, he believes, and deaths from malaria can fall by half by 2015.

We cut down the production time by half.

A paper by half, down a road of flowers, repair clear, earthly, a.

The department store has reduced its prices by half.

Since the end of apartheid in 1994, the murder rate has fallen by half to 34 per 100, 000 inhabitants every year.

Can we take in China Daily by half a year?

shrimp have a certain salinity, salt reduced by half the amount of time.

Smoking alone could undermine the worldwide goal of reducing TB mortality by half between 1990 and 2015, they say.

In the last 20 years, the number of Americans over 65 who live with their adult children declined by half, dropping from 18% to 9%.

And because the laser eliminates bleeding, post operative bruising and swelling is reduced by half.

Their car speed was reduced by half when they entered the town.

After the first treatment, Ms. Stettler's tumors had shrunk by half.

The subsequent collapse in crude prices has cut this year's average by half, to $50, generating an annualised saving of $1, 600bn.

The trusts scrambled to raise money by dumping stock portfolios, and by late 1907 US equities were down by half from their peak.

On the other side of the ledger, China's surplus is on course to fall by half from its 2007 peak, of 11% of GDP, by 2010.

The mere act of asking people to register caused its market share to drop by half, according to Hitwise, a market-research firm.

That excuse is too convenient by half: it is what the apologists for communism said too.

The new jet service cuts the travelling time by half.

SkySails, a Hamburg-based company that makes such kites, reckons they can cut a vessel's fuel consumption by half in ideal conditions.

The restructuring cut this delay by half.