The number of Anglican churches in Devon targeted by metal thieves has fallen by about half in the past year.
The radiation dose from an individual dental X-ray, Dr Claus points out, has gone down by about half over the past 30 years or so.
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The Southern Poverty Law Centre in Montgomery, Alabama, which tracks the Klan, estimates that it has about 5, 000 members, down by about half in the past 15 years.
Over the past year about half a dozen Intel-based smartphones have hit the market, a drop in the bucket compared with the hundreds of designs using ARM-based technology, but still a half dozen more than Intel could claim last year.
The Chicago area, for instance, once a hub of candy making, has lost about half its jobs in that industry over the past 15 years.
For one thing, QE is probably only responsible for about half of the fall in gilt yields over the past few years.
Jorge walks past a rusty steel pipe, about half a metre high.
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Half of 105 participants were asked to write about a past experience in which they had legitimately been given a role of high or low power.
The New Orleans company says it has gotten about 8, 000 investment inquiries in the past year and a half thanks to its online presence.
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Second Harvest, the largest food-bank network in the country, says that about half its 183 food-distribution centers have reported increased demand over the past year.
In a survey of 950 companies, the International Facility Management Association, a trade group for office-facility managers, found 60% had some unassigned workspaces in their offices, and about half said the number of employees using the unassigned space had increased in the past two years.
On top of that, the frequency of major U.S. hurricane strikes over the past several decades is down about one-third compared with the first half of the 20th century.
In China, worries are growing about weakening export demand (growth in export volumes has fallen by almost half over the past year to 11%) and falling property prices, which seem to play a role similar to equity prices elsewhere.
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Over the past 20 years, bank stocks have traded at about one and a half times their book value.
In the past half century, the median age for first marriage has risen by about six years for both sexes, with grooms taking their first plunge at 28.7 years and brides at 26.5 years.
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But it is still a very dangerous drive, with many Lebanese saying they simply won't go past the town of Sidon, which in normal circumstances is only about a half hour drive south of Beirut.
The RCN poll also found that nearly half of those who had raised concerns about patient safety in Northern Ireland had done so in the past six months.
About 320, 000 foreclosures were initiated in each of the first two quarters of this year (just more than half of them on subprime mortgages), up from an average of about 225, 000 during the past six years.
Given that he's only flown back home twice in the past two-and-a-half years, he knows an impressive amount of detail about his children's daily lives.
Chief Executive Tony Williams said Artio is working to cut costs and has laid off about 100 people, or 44% of its workforce, in the past year-and-a-half.
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