We might be able to get away with one-half or one-fifth of that.
It also helps that accommodation and labour costs are between one-half and one-third those of rival hubs, such as Dublin and Luxembourg.
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Korman ordered the requirement lowered to one-half-of-one-percent, and the state legislature later changed the law in advance of the year 2000 election period.
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As for Social Security, Ryan modestly scaled back his original proposal by reducing the amount invested in private accounts, from one-half to one-third of payroll taxes.
The dispute is rooted in state laws that require a presidential candidate to gather 5, 000 signatures of registered party voters statewide, including one-half-of-one-percent of registered party voters in each of the state's 31 congressional districts.
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"We had the first goal five minutes before half-time, so we were looking at going in at half-time one-nil up, " said Butcher.
She estimated that one-half of the graduate students at RPI come from abroad and about one-third to one-half of those come from China.
In just eight years, coal's share of the U.S. electricity market has tumbled from one-half to one third -- and still falling.
Out of the 35 million people who died from chronic diseases in 2005, one-half were under 70 and one-half were women.
It was the linkage between something that Congress absolutely has to do -- which is extend the borrowing authority of the United States government -- to specific legislation that one-half of one body of Congress wanted passed.
In contrast, if the tax rate is reduced from 50% to 25%, what producers are allowed to keep from their production increases from one-half to three-fourths, increasing the reward for production and output by one-half.
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If you are a politician and are any kind of a wit at all - even half of one - you can expect to be lionised in the press by bored political correspondents who will guffaw at your bon mots because the rest of what passes for gaggery generally strikes a bum note.
Economists estimate they could eventually cost us more than 750, 000 jobs and slow our economy by over one-half of one percent.
And we want to pay college football players because one-half of one percent might individually be generating more revenue for their school than they receive in scholarship value?
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In Ghana in 2008, around one-half of young women and one-third of young men could not read a sentence even though they had spent six years in school.
In addition, the late payment penalty mentioned above of one-half of one percent of the tax (0.5%) is applied for each month, or part of a month the balance is not paid.
It appears fair to say that an increase in total government size of ten percentage points in tax revenue or expenditure as a share of GDP is on average associated with an annual lower growth rate of between one-half and one percentage point.
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Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said Labour had "given in and recognised that the system is unfair to Wales, but the solution Peter Hain has come up with is only a half-baked one to the problem we have".
Croatia continued to push for the opener right up to the break and Jerko Leko sent a low 20-meter shot fizzing just wide of Boruc's right post, before the Polish number one did superbly to save from Klasnic on the stroke of half-time following another one-on-one with the Croatia hitman.
An estimated one-quarter to one-half percent of the American population is transsexual, however, Keisling said.
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Today, between one-third and one-half of what comprises New Zealand export wine is bulk.
One way or another, Iran's mullahs control between one-third and one-half of their nation's economy.
Others give a more traditional one-third or one-half share to the spouse, with the kids dividing the rest.
It has been estimated that the Iraq contract makes up one-third to one-half of the privately held company's business.
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The docking station holding the fuel cell and battery combination will make a Thinkpad one-third to one-half thicker and deeper.
While the company is privately held, the Iraq contract has been estimated to make up one-third to one-half of its business.
FremantleMedia, the series' production company, is believed to receive somewhere between one-third and one-half of the revenue streams 19 Entertainment see from the show.
According to a growing body of research, somewhere between one-third and one-half of the value of U.S. imports from China is actually Chinese value-added.
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Engineers like to point out that it takes just one-and-a-half gallons of water--one toilet flush--to create enough hydrogen for an average day's driving, 30 miles.
Tumors are almost always fatal when they spread beyond the kidney, as they do in one-third to one-half of the 31, 000 Americans diagnosed with kidney cancer each year.
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