The hands don't stand up now and are now permanently stuck on half past six.
The pain has been even more acute in energy stocks, with the Energy Select Sector SPDR down 17% and shares of the widely reviled BP have been cut in half in the past six weeks.
March's rise in job creation was half the level of the past six months, when there was an average monthly decline of 196, 000.
And the military, which has seized power four times in the past six and half decades, has shown no interest in doing so again for the foreseeable future.
Coutts has beefed up its non-resident Indian team in the past half-year with six new hires in Dubai, London and Singapore, bringing the bank's NRI team to 60 including support staff.
Unfortunately that's exactly what we've seen in the past six and a half years.
You know, 190 people have been killed here and 700 injured in the past six weeks, half of them civilians, including children.
At the same time, over the past six and a half years, the special interests have had a field day at the expense of the middle class and hard-working families.
Sport England said more than 15 million people were taking part in sport each week - an increase of half-a-million over the past six months.
In the past six months, more than half a dozen Asian B2B "super-portals" have sprung up, according to Joe Sweeney, an analyst with research firm GartnerGroup.
Cities such as Shanghai and Tianjin have sunk six feet over the past decade and a half as precious underground water reserves are drawn down, causing skyscrapers to tilt and encouraging coastal flooding.
In the past six years, we have cut the welfare rolls nearly in half.
At least half a dozen other venture-capital firms have launched nanotech funds in the past six months.
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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In the past six months, flat-screen plasma televisions have accounted for nearly half of all TVs sold around the world.
But those bills have been rising fast during the past six months and their cleaning contracts have been cut by more than half, as companies have reduced their spending.
Florent Malouda's searching run allowed Franck Ribery to tee-up Nasri for a clinical strike from the edge of the penalty area that flew past his City team-mate, Joe Hart, six minutes before half-time.
Non-Japanese operating profits at the top six houses have grown, on average, by around 20% a year for the past six years (see chart), and now account for roughly half of their total operating profits.
Westview has paid an average of half the previous selling price (in cash) for its two dozen homes over the past six months.
The Blades broke the deadlock six minutes before half-time, Tonge powering an unstoppable free-kick high past Robert Green after Anton Ferdinand had fouled Christian Nade.
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Just six minutes after coming on as a half-time substitute, Salpigidis poked an equaliser past stranded goalkeeper Szczesny.
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.
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