The underground economy is nearly half as large as the legal one, reckons Mr Kar.
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The Amazon rain forest covers a huge area, roughly half as large as the United States, with about 60% of it in Brazil.
China Mobile now has a market value half as large again as Vodafone's.
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Reynolds indicates the median income of households where the head holds a doctorate degree is about two and a half times as large on average as the median income of households where the head holds only a high school degree, and 5 times as large on average as for households where the head holds less than a ninth grade education.
Students graduating in 2010 will receive about half as many job offers from large law firms as those who graduated in 2009, the National Law Journal reports.
Any asteroid as large as a half-mile across would cause a global catastrophe, if it struck the blue planet, he added.
Any asteroid as large as a half-mile across would cause a global catastrophe, if it struck the blue planet, Chodas said.
GOP's advantage has not disappeared, but it is half what it was in September and only a third as large as it was in 2003, when Republicans led Democrats by 51% to 36% on this issue (see chart).
For over half a century, this was a great deal for TV companies as they could reach large pools of customers without having to worry about building out infrastructure to get programming to those customers.
It would also offer large environmental benefits because gas emits few conventional pollutants, and only about half as much carbon dioxide as the main transitional alternative: continued coal burning.
After heavy selling all morning, trade data show the market began to be flooded with sell orders as large as 12 contracts at a time while buy orders were less than half that level.
In its first four years, Terracycle raked in about half-a-million dollars in revenue selling liquefied worm poop at large retail chains such as Wal Mart, Target, and Home Depot.
Stoke sat back for a large part of the second half, much to the frustration of the home support, as Brighton pressed, hoping for the comeback to end all comebacks.
That would affront the French republican notion that a melting-pot should produce a single stew, as, by and large, did earlier waves of immigration in the past half-century from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Italy.
With a housing-wealth effect twice as large (the same size as in Mr Muellbauer's study) and one and a half times as speedy, it would be 1.5% lower a little earlier.
More than half of the large corporations gave less cash, 30% gave more, and 16% gave about the same as the year before.
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