School begins at half past eight.

School begins at half past eight.

Right now, it is a half past ten.

The past half a century of work in the service of justice

The US cannot continue with the failed policies of the past half century.

Nevertheless, policy over the past two and a half years has been good.

The flood disaster is the worst in the country in the past half century.

Well over half (92) of the 160 known claims were filed within the past three years.

Over the past decade and half, some developing countries have emerged as significant sources of FDI.

Yet many people look at America's economy, even over these past three and half years, with some envy.

Unfortunately, about half of the IMF s past managing directors have been either weak or overly political or both.

Over the past three years, 4.3 million jobs have been created, a half of which is for women.

Over the past year and a half, China s reserves skyrocketed to 1.8 trillion, far and away the world s largest.

She died on Tuesday, 22 January 1901, at half past six in the evening, at the age of 81.

The past two and a half years have been a disaster for peace, stability, and our sense of common humanity.

Also notable are the high economic growth rates in Afghanistan's urban centres over the past three and a half years.

So far, 43,710 troops of the Afghan militia forces have been disarmed almost half of them over the past six months.

Moreover, it is the kind of mistake that the British have been making in relations with Europe for the past half century.

Though often dismissed as a mere transactional manager, Bush had one of the best foreign policy records of the past half century.

The selection of a half Japanese, half American woman as Japan's representative for the 64th Miss Universe pageant this past April has sparked a renewed domestic and international debate regarding what it means to be Japanese.

So, it is not alarmist to worry aloud about preserving the sense of community that Europe has enjoyed for the past half century.

For the past half century, this has represented Europe s revolutionary recipe for peace, and has served as something of a microcosm of globalization.

High construction employment has been good for American workers in the past half decade a period that has not produced much good for them.

But progress toward inclusive, durable institutions will require Egyptians to take heed of the main mistakes of the past two and a half years.

The town of Sderot has been plagued by numerous Qassam rocket attacks initiated by Palestinian terrorists over the past four and a half years.

They reiterated that the close partnership between Afghanistan and the international community which has characterized the past three and a half years should continue.

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.

Thailand s worst flooding in the past half century killed more than 600 people and displaced thousands of residents and workers from their homes and factories.

Security, effective institutions and development will require time and concerted efforts, to build upon the political achievements of the past three and a half years.

This was a major step toward fairer elections, as the judges professional union has remained fairly independent over the past half century of executive power grabs.

After varying between 25 and 50 of GDP for the past half century, the recent budget deficits have caused the debt to reach 62 of GDP.

Over the past three and a half years, significant economic growth has taken place in the urban centres and food security has improved, with record crop yields.

The total number of abortions and legally induced abortions per 1000 women in fertile age has decreased by more than a half in the past 10 years.

Over the past decade and a half, there had been a surge in such operations and indeed a change of concept, in that operations had become multidimensional.

They have infused societies with kindness, and we have really felt that as woman after woman has stood on this stage in the past day and a half.

Over the past three and a half years, the economy should have created some 4 to 6 million jobs to provide employment for new entrants into the labor force.

For example, labor force participation, which usually stops falling and starts rising after the business cycle trough, has been steadily declining over the past two and a half years.

Thus, given the situation facing young Nicaraguans, the Government of Nicaragua has over the past three and half years developed a youth action programme aimed at addressing those problems.

Eritrea has half, while Yemen has half.

If this is Blair s calculation, he is mistaken. Moreover, it is the kind of mistake that the British have been making in relations with Europe for the past half century.

Yet the recent revelation of the Czech writer Milan Kundera s presumed complicity in the face of Stalinism is but the latest of the long half life of a toxic past.

Overall, China s trade surplus has decreased by 36 in absolute US dollar terms, and has dropped by more than half (53 ) in proportion to GDP over the past two years.

Here is one measure of success over the past year and a half, the proportion of people who smile at you in Port Phillip has risen, from 8 to 10 .

GDP has nearly tripled over the past 20 years, but, with real wages rising at less than half this rate, growth has become decoupled from the fate of ordinary citizens.

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)