What's up with Miss Universe Japan being half? (lol)

Studies reveal that up to half of patients cannot understand basic healthcare information.

People under 24 now make up almost half the world's population.

Things will begin to look up in the second half of 2013, we are told.

Up to half a pound (200 g) of seeds may be collected from one ant heap.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

We gathered up our materials and we went out of the room, and counted to a half hour.

The Black Death epidemic hit England starting in 1348, it eventually killed up to half of England's inhabitants.

Then he starts going up, and the next thing I hear is, I'm half way up. It's like climbing stairs. I'm going up 60 degrees.

He swore to her, Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.

And so it showed up, we used it a little while, we cut it in half.

Instead, the release of pent up consumer demand was literally half that of previous business cycles.

Half of American children grow up with no civic education. Half of states no longer teach civics the study of our Republic and how it works in middle school.

And about two and a half, 3,000 sharks were killed up till '85, many by Norwegian vessels.

And for each year of paid social insurance, they will receive one half of the average monthly salary up to five months.

This Chinese saying has a great deal of truth as women make up about half the world population.

This leg, his right leg, now takes an awful beating because he has to half crawl, because it's faster to move that way to keep up with his friends, keep up with his brothers and sisters, than to get up on his crutches and walk.

By the second half of the 2000 s, programs to fight the three main killer communicable diseases were scaling up around the world.

Of the other half, most end up highly aid dependent indeed an unsustainable position in the present financial context.

We wanted to get away from this silly trip, up and down on a submarine average depth of the ocean, 12,000 feet two and half hours to get to work in the morning two and half hours to get to home. Five hour commute to work.

The Parliament consisted of two chambers the National Assembly, made up of deputies elected by universal suffrage, and the Economic and Social Council, half of which was made up of elected councillors and the other half of government appointees their term of office was five years.

As Thomas Sankara, the man Compaore overthrew in 1987 to become President of Burkina Faso, Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Further follow up work to help stakeholders fully apply and implement new approaches and strategies will be undertaken in the latter half of 2005.

However, by 2015 that group will double to make up 47 per cent of the population, and the group of those aged 0 to 15, which now makes up 46.5 per cent, will shrink by half.

If people would stop filling up and instead make do with half a tank, they would immediately lower gasoline demand.

The recession exacerbated such views, and in 2009 half of Americans favored reducing legal immigration, up from 39 in 2008.

Mushrooms, such as Shiitake mushrooms, make up half of the forest industry, with an output of approximately 5.6 billion yen.

The electorate is experiencing the greatest slump since 1929 like a bad dream that is half over and politicians don t want to wake them up.

Regardless of their lifespan, the largest impatiens grow up to about 2 meters (about 7 feet) tall, but most are less than half as tall.

Non citizens, primarily migrant workers from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who migrated to Bahrain in recent decades, make up more than half of the population.

Then half of them announced their commitment to this goal to the room, and half didn't.

The difference is about 45 minutes per day, whereas during weekdays the difference drops to half an hour, while during weekends it increases up to an hour.

Eritrea has half, while Yemen has half.

Germans made up a third of the country's population, and the three duchies were behind a half of Denmark's economic power.

Women hold up half the sky was an often quoted saying at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.

To this day, despite a loving husband, she doesn't think she's beautiful because of a birthmark that takes up a little less than half her face.

Their despair becomes easier to understand when we realize that almost 90 million young people are unemployed and make up more than half the world's unemployed.

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)

Russia took up the responsibility for settling the USSR's external debts, even though its population made up just half of the population of the USSR at the time of its dissolution.

The recession exacerbated such views in 2009, one half of the US public favored allowing fewer immigrants, up from 39 in 2008.

Women make up half of the Middle East s population, and any hope of political and economic development must account for that fact.

This reminds me of great Arab authors, who come up with a new book every six months, half of which tackle sex.

The big surprise is Europe, which, unlike in 2004 and the first half of 2005, now seems to be catching up with the rest of the world.

Economic growth picked up in the final quarter of 2012 to 7.9 half a percentage point faster than the 7.4 increase in GDP in the third quarter.

For two and a half centuries, economists have believed that the flow of spending in an economy goes up whenever groups of people decide to spend more.