CRISIL, an impressive outfit, is furthest down this path with half its sales from abroad, mainly from helping banks with equity research and risk-management models, demand for which has soared thanks to more regulation in the rich world.

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Egypt needs to import half of its food from abroad.

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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.

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Many U.S. corporations now do more than half of their overall business overseas and far more than half of their growth comes from abroad.

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Some estimates suggest that half of all money transfers from migrants living abroad are done outside the formal sector - that is, banks or money transfer firms.

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It's the new reality: Money that was gushing into the market from abroad to finance films a year and a half ago is now just trickling in.

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South African professors found that hosting a team from abroad was worth 4.5 additional points, or around half of the average home-team scoring advantage over the period.

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Yamato Transport, which found a way round government regulations that prevented trucking companies from operating nationwide, has close to half of the parcel-delivery business in Japan and is now spreading abroad.

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