Just 475 will be ordained this year, half as many as 40 years ago.
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At this point, George W. Bush had done roughly half as many fundraisers as the President.
Only 5% to 10% of cancer patients ever join a trial, half as many as drugmakers need.
The 2, 000 samples it gathered on this year's tour are only half as many as go into the government's estimates.
Encouraging further confusion between the two institutions, Shengda has nearly half as many undergraduates as Zhengzhou University, which has 32, 000.
Results will vary from place to place, but on average, there are probably fewer than half as many as a decade ago.
November saw less than half as many visitors as the year before, and less than a third as many as November 2000.
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Between 2005 and 2010, 1.4 million Mexicans migrated north of the border, fewer than half as many as in the previous five-year period.
The U.S. Mint sold 6, 422, 000 Silver Eagles in January 2011, half as many as were sold in the record-setting month of November 2010.
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He said London Fire Brigade crews attended half as many fires as a decade ago, while fire deaths were down by a third.
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Mr Johnson said London Fire Brigade crews attended half as many fires as a decade ago, while fire deaths were down by a third.
Importantly, there's evidence that new businesses getting off the ground are doing so with nearly half as many workers as they did a decade ago.
Only about half as many Democrats as Republicans (39% against 74%) believe that it is right to conduct surveillance of suspected terrorists without a court order.
Last year, only 26 medicines or vaccines were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, half as many as in 1996, the year that Lipitor was approved.
That was fewer than half as many as in the peak year of 1998, which saw 240, and well below the average of 193 cases annually over the previous decade.
Each one will have four engines, half as many as the ships they are replacing, and usually only one will be running, says Paul Norton of the Ministry of Defence.
Morsi won just 5 million votes in the first round of presidential elections, half as many as in the parliamentary election, one of every four votes, and just one in 10 eligible voters.
Two decades ago its students got about half as many good GCSEs as the national average.
But while a partial government shutdown would still close federal tourist attractions, this time it would affect less than half as many federal workers as the last time.
Worse, the delays have meant that Poland has the worst telephone network in Central Europe, with proportionately around half as many telephone lines as the Czechs or Hungarians.
But to keep its campaign in perspective, it is important to remember it is fielding fewer than half as many candidates as the Greens.
Less phones means less parts, of course, and the firm says it will be dropping some suppliers and will be buying half as many components as a result.
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Now, globally, there are about half as many deaths as there were a decade ago, and a dozen African countries have cut their malaria death rates by more than 50 percent.
People over 65 have half as many accidents at work as their younger and more careless colleagues.
Employers added half as many jobs in May as expected, and rosier reports of job additions from earlier months were revised down.
There are about half as many specialists working the floor as there were two years ago, and the Big Board has closed three of its five trading rooms.
In the first quarter there were two-and-a-half times as many cases as last year.
Even so, the company sells only about half as many new products to existing customers as leader Wells Fargo.
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