In the end the glass is not half empty but half full

SARAJEVO Almost exactly 13 years ago, American leadership brought an end to Bosnia's three and a half year war through the Dayton peace agreement.

The campaign and subsequent three and a half year Japanese occupation was also a major factor in the end of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia.

Of these, half die within a year.

Half of China s toy factories went bust by the end of 2008.

Education and end of year examinations

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.

Second, expectations of the fiscal cliff automatic tax increases and spending cuts set for the end of this year will keep spending and growth lower through the second half of 2012.

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

In other words, Russia has already spent more than half of its total military budget for 2015. At this rate, its reserve fund will be emptied before the end of the year.

At the end of the year, with membership presumably growing, the organization picked up its pace, claiming credit for a half dozen actions in December 1978 and a dozen in January 1979.

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.

The current downturn, already a half decade long, will not end any time soon.

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.

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

At the end of my first year in school, in the summer of that year,

Country office staff are reminded that these reports are due by year end each year.

UNFPA reminds country office staff that these reports are due by year end each year.

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.

The last half century has seen the end of ideological politics in much of the world.

On the contrary, roughly half of all wars that come to an end relapse into violence.

Current year obligations have been revalued at the year end United Nations operational rate of exchange.

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

State media recently started releasing year end mass incident statistics.

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.

Despite this, Iraq won the 2004 AFC Team of the Year award by the end of the year.

Let us establish this Commission before the end of the year.

The talks could be finalized before the end of this 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.