Of these, half die within a year.

The price of oil, at around 70 a barrel, may be half of what it was a year ago, but up from around 40 earlier this year.

Despite some individual privatization successes during the first half of the year, the overall privatization effort remained lacklustre at best.

Though he seemed secure at the time, a year and a half later he was sent to The Hague to stand trial.

elmundoes they've been chanting this for a year and a half...

So half a year ago, I decided to go to Pakistan myself.

She has been in exile for the last year and a half.

She spent half of each year in India, where she attended school.

The English obtained for only half a year the right to trade.

San Diego's contract with China was to expire in 2008, but got a five year extension at about half of the previous yearly cost.

Different viruses predominate at different periods of the year during influenza season, for example, influenza may account for over half of all viral cases.

A friend of mine once said, You know, a three year old is not half a six year old.

Most analysts forecast that GDP will contract in the first half of 2008 and recover in the second half of the year.

And in the first year, I had to fire half of the men.

Welfare benefits account for more than half of Germany s federal spending this year.

This year, more than half of China s provinces had serious ATS related problems.

Half of the increase, or 25 billion per year, would go to Africa.

Following the earthquake, aftershocks continued several times a month for half a year.

You see, if you're only making one film a year, or one film every year and a half, it's hard.

We have welcomed more than 70 volunteer translators from at least 21 countries to the Global Voices community in the past year and a half.

It initially consisted of 12 independent human rights experts, with half elected for a two year term and half elected for four years.

Since then, the number of construction jobs has fallen by more than 45 per cent, to 1,737 jobs in fiscal year 2003, and stood at 1,660 in the first half of fiscal year 2004.

School begins at half past eight.

School begins at half past eight.

A year and a half ago, four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, which means testimony in Swahili, were TED Fellows.

And then about a year and a half ago, Google actually acquired this company.

For a year and a half, Santos s policies have been advancing in concentric circles.

But the mean year of establishment is only 1992, indicating that at least half of these subsidiaries of SINTNCs in China must have been established after 1992.

In the first half of fiscal year 2004, the sector grew by 8.2 per cent.

Indeed, half of what a student learns in the first year of a four year technical course will be out of date by the third year. Change itself accelerates.

He has just over a year and a half to go to complete his second and final five year term as South Africa s president.

Taking the second half of the six year term, he entered office on September 1, 2002.

Half a million visitors a year come to visit the Museum of Leonardo and his birthplace.

Scott died in Hollywood in 1940, having last seen Zelda a year and a half earlier.

China s outward FDI is poised to increase sharply again in 2010, judging by the first half of the year, when it was rising at an annual rate of 44 .

Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.

With only two months to go before the end of the year, more than half of regular budget assessments remained unpaid and only 111 States had fully paid their assessed contributions compared with 118 at the same time the previous year.

A year and a half she's out speaking on behalf of the other women in her country.

BERKELEY After a year and half of delay and denial, Greece is about to restructure its debts.

But when price increases accelerated in the second half of the year, the authorities began to worry.

Four year old Sahir was already dead, with half his head blown away by an Israeli shrapnel.

During the second half of the year, Nadal battled a knee injury suffered during the Wimbledon final.

Thereafter members will be elected for four year terms, with half the members elected every two years.

Ten Bosnia and Herzegovina indictees were transferred to The Hague during the first half of the year.

I finally got around to calculus as a 32 year old tenured professor at Harvard, where I sat uncomfortably in classes with undergraduate students, little more than half my age.