The U.N.Children's Fund reports nearly half of the estimated two million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's Swat Valley are children.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

And nearly not even a half of them graduate high school, which is like, a terrible injustice, a complete injustice.

其中不到一半能高中毕业，这非常不公正，完全的不公正。

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Nearly half of the farmland in the United States is planted with crops that have been genetically engineered, mainly maize,soybeans and cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

India has snapped up nearly half the precious metal the IMF is selling to shore up its finances and increase lending to developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

KickStart says the sale of its pumps has helped to move nearly half a million people out of poverty in Kenya,Tanzania, Mali and Burkina Faso.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

which are performed in nearly half of all deliveries in some New York hospitals.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

It has begun construction of a wind farm to supply nearly half its electricity.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

But in 2006 violence again erupted after nearly half the military defected claiming discrimination.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Surveys from a well-regarded polling organization in the U.S.also show that nearly half of Palestinians and 60 per cent of Lebanese have an unfavorable view of Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

A recent public opinion survey by Quinnipiac University shows that nearly half of all Americans say they disapprove of the new health care law, while 40 percent say they approve.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

And health care providers usually charge more. A World Health Organization survey of hospital and clinic births in nine Asian countries earlier this year found 27 percent were c-sections, and in China it was nearly half of all births.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

The World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year -- another victim every six seconds.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Seafood is worth nearly two and a half billion dollars to the state.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

In trading,Japanese stocks were up nearly two percent, while markets in Hong Kong, South Korea,and Australia were up about half a percent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

But nearly one-half of its people live on less than $1 per day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The U.S.military is buying more than 6,000 of the M-ATVs, at a cost of nearly a million and a half dollars each, including all their equipment, spare parts and transportation to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

A Happy Meal that includes a cheeseburger,French fries, and a soda contains half a day's worth of calories and saturated fat, along with nearly a day's worth of sodium, and two day's worth of sugar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Dubai World says it will restructure less than half of the nearly The new scheme will look at options for deleveraging, including asset sales,and will apply to the conglomerate's main property firms, Nakheel and Limitless.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

The United Nations estimates that nearly 200,000 people, half of the region's population, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and they may all soon be on the move in search of towns with food and water.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06