But Dr Dial wanted to be sure, so he compared the accomplishments of normal partridges with birds that had their wing feathers clipped to half their normal surface area, and to even less fortunate fowl whose main flight feathers were entirely plucked.
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So far this year, six tornadoes have been reported -- about half the normal number.
Thus far in 2013, six tornadoes have been reported, about half the normal number.
Less than half the normal shift of 200 men went into work, but the pit was able to continue production.
First Great Western operated a reduced service, running about half the normal number of trains into and out of Paddington.
Before Mardi Gras, tourism had rebounded to about half its normal level.
Syrup is turning into soda, but at only half the normal ratio.
Chances were few and far between in the first half of normal time, although McKay and Kewell came close just before the break.
The two kinases were so similar that Vertex researchers devised a prototype blocker for the second kinase in a year--half the normal time.
Many Peruvians have relatives in the United States, and can call them over the internet for less than half the normal telephone tariff.
Package tourists were invited to wing their way in for two weeks at the grandest hotels for the price of half the normal air fare.
The chamber is pressurized with pure oxygen, and the pressure inside the chamber will slowly rise to about two and a half times normal atmospheric pressure.
Market volume is around half the normal size.
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Reservoirs such as Bewl Bridge in Kent are below half of their normal level for the time of year.
Mountain chaparral and shrubs are dry because Los Angeles has received only half of its normal rainfall the past two years, Myers said.
On Wednesday she had to drive 18 miles to see him instead of the normal half-mile drive over the bridge to where he lives.
Recently, Mr Speaker Bercow has allowed PMQs to over-run its normal half hour, perhaps as a kind of injury time to compensate for the usual bouts of shouting and general disorder.
And next week he will meet Mr Gore to speed up the transition process, made all the more important because half of the normal period for it has already been used up by the post-election wranglings.
Trains are hot and everybody (countries, states, cities and towns) wants serveral and soon a train building bubble arises and collapses and the train building business falls to less than half its its normal contribution to GDP.
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In this version of the study, half of the people received the normal photograph, and the other half received a blurry copy of the photograph.
The top half of the screen is normal gravity, but if you go to the bottom half of the screen gravity is reversed.
This is about half of what is normal for the start of an economic recovery.
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In short, they will have a threat-driven operational service life half that of a normal combatant ship.
They cut energy use for walking in half, and allow normal stair walking.
On average, white boys started puberty at age 10, a year and a half earlier than the normal average.
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Knox has spent the last year and a half trying to resume a normal life, studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, her hometown.
These are usually one day affairs and are typically based on a running race of 3-12 miles, but those miles are fraught with hazards not found on any normal marathon or half-marathon course, from mud pits to vertical walls, fiery flame barriers to electric shocks, ice plunges to crawls under barbwire.
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Murphy's new NBC comedy "The New Normal" was also half-expected to get a nomination.
The pessimists, meanwhile, believe that flat to low single digits will be the new normal for the back half of 2012 and into 2013.
Finally, and most disturbingly to Dr Colman, half the cloned (and seemingly normal) cows and sheep that make it through to birth drop dead within three weeks.
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