This means that over time much smaller estates would be hit with a rate that would confiscate nearly half of a lifetime of savings or business success.

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Hed spent half a lifetime in the bruising business of book publishing -- much of it at the top of the heap.

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It may surprise you to know that despite all of these advantages, the average Fortune 500 is extinct in 40 years half a human lifetime.

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Globally the average fertility rate (the number of children a woman can expect during her lifetime) has roughly halved in the past half century, from five in the mid-1950s to 2.5.

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Obviously this country has gone through as tough of a time as we've seen in my lifetime over the last two and a half years.

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More than half of Cox's clients are knowledgeable, confident gardeners themselves, who understand that high-end garden design entails a lifetime commitment.

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"At least half of all men can be identified as being at low risk and probably need no more than three PSA tests in a lifetime, " they say in the British Medical Journal.

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