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.

31 And Society in the stricter sense traces from the Hotel Rambouillet, where one-half the influence was Spanish.

32 A one-half cup serving provides 300% the daily recommendation of vitamin C. That's a lot of antioxidant power.

33 Bonds are still a good value, costing one-half their face value and earning interest that in some instances will be tax-free if used for a college education.

34 This means hundreds of thousands of students hold internships each year; some experts estimate that one-fourth to one-half are unpaid.

35 He then halved the primary winding,(http:///one-half.html) using one-half in the plate circuit and the other half in the cathode circuit.

36 If carbon dioxide is responsible for about one-half of human-related greenhouse gas warming since the industrial revolution, methane and nitrous oxide are responsible for another one-third.

37 In contrast, the improved ventilation and efficiency of fully-combusting eco stoves significantly limit emissions and cut fuel use by up to one-half.

38 Children: take one-half the adult usage. Hold sprayer close to mouth. Press button briskly for a full spray to the back of mouth and throat areas.

39 Advertisers paid at least two and one-half million dollars for a thirty-second commercial broadcast during the game.

40 But observers say that with results in from nearly one-half of the constituencies, the lead could change.

41 The Ghent University students estimate their house, appliances included, will cost a homebuyer about $268, 000 — roughly one-half of where winning Solar Decathlon houses have been priced in the past.

42 The loss of one data center means that one-half of the application server endpoints are no longer reachable.

43 The average rotational latency is one-half of a revolution of the disk platter.

44 A 2-for-1 stock split will reduce the par value per share by one-half, but it will not change the dollar balance of any account.

45 This still enabled each half cycle to complete its loop through the one-half of primary in the plate circuit and one-half in the cathode circuit.

46 However, international donors are feeding nearly one-half of the population and in recent years have provided most of the drugs used in government health services.

47 In the past year thousands of factories, perhaps one-third to one-half of the total, have closed.

48 The realization that my daughters were playing in Nancy's house, just one-half block away, paralyzed my legs making me unable to move when I neared the end of our driveway.