I sat in the car for half an hour, while my wife and children sat and watched.

我坐在车里过了半个小时，而我的妻子和孩子就坐在那看着。

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The group reckons that 600,000 families with 1.35m children experience homelessness each year, accounting for about half of the national total.

估计有1350000个孩子的600,000个家庭每年都会有无家可归的经历，大约占据了国内总数的一半。

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Those craving an unhealthy diet should make for America, where more than half of the expat parents said that their children had eaten more junk food since relocating.

那些想吃垃圾食品的孩子们应该去美国：超过半数的移居到美国的父母说他们的孩子去了美国后吃了更多的垃圾食品。

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In fact, a UNICEF analysis illustrated that across 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa less than a third of children in the poorest 20 percent of the population receive appropriate treatment for diarrhoea, compared to almost half of children in the wealthiest 20 percent.

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The children were driven for around half a mile before being abandoned at the roadside in Mere Road.

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Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, was heavily criticised for his slow reaction to the Beslan siege and for the botched storming of the school, where 331 people died, half of them children.

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