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1 Even the famine area was made to pay one-half of the supplemental tax levied for famine relief.
2 The company said it expects between one-half to two-thirds of eligible workers to accept the offer, which expires later this month.
3 In fact, around one-half of the cases can be identified solely from the headlines as persons abusing their positions of trust.
4 The officer corps, comprising about one-half of the men in uniform, is rapidly shrinking.
5 This is about two and one-half times less than the actual circumference of about 25, 000 miles.
6 Between one-fifth and one-half of all unmarried teenagers in developing countries are sexually active, according to the Worldwatch Institute.
7 Two and one-half tablespoons of dried whole egg plus two and one-half tablespoons of water are equivalent to one egg.
8 Toast one-half of a whole-wheat English muffin.
9 Its budget deficit is about one-half that of Greece.
10 Spread 1 tablespoon part-skim ricotta cheese over one-half of a small cinnamon-raisin bagel. Sprinkle with cinnamon if desired and top with a thinly sliced apple.
11 About one-half of Canadians are from Britain or French ancestry. Native Indians and Inuit still live in the country.
12 Machiavelli willdeclare that at least one-half of human actions are controlled byFortune in Chapter XXV, but nowhere agrees with Dante that DivineProvidence controls Fortune.
13 Spread 1 tablespoon part-skim ricotta cheese over one-half of a small cinnamon-raisin bagel.
14 Only one-half of the attendees could fit into the large hall at any one time.
15 Whichever buy-in regime applies, stamp duty is payable by Target at one-half percent on the return of the cancelled shares.
16 In the decade ending in 1989, the developed world grew only one and one-half times as fast as the developed world.
17 Often referred to as shanty towns, these make-shift settlements now house one-third to one-half of the population of many cities.
18 Fewer than twenty-five states are federations, but this group includes nearly one-half of the land area of the world.
19 The greatest gains in in-come and wealth have come to the top one-half of one percent of the population.
20 A few cases dominate this reporting, while just over one-half of the rape cases mentioned appeared only in one sample newspaper.
21 Just 200 extra calories each day add up to one-half pound of extra body fat each week.
22 Most bonds pay interest semiannually at a rate equal to one-half of the annual coupon rate.
23 In other situations the total length of a fixed record may be just slightly longer than one-half a 4 KB page, so then only one record can fit on a page.
24 Warm one cup of oil over a low flame and place one-half ounce herbs wrapped in cheesecloth to soak.
25 Moreover, of the amount spent on the sports venues, the government shoulders only about one-half.
26 If pulley keyway length is less than this length, rework long key by removing one-half of excess length between pulley and end of key to maintain balance.
27 This camera is focused to detect a wall exactly one-half block away from the robot.
28 "The out-migration has reached epidemic proportions, especially among young people, " he says. "The school system here has one-half the students compared with three decades ago."
29 When Lasker met the cancer researcher Sidney Farber, in Washington in the late nineteen-forties, it was, Mukherjee writes, "like the meeting of two stranded travelers, each carrying one-half of a map.
30 In fact the quit rate among home-office workers during the experiment was about one-half of what it was for those making the commute.
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