British telecom giant and Verizon Wireless co-owner Vodafone could also make a play, divesting itself of its Verizon interests, under the theory that having all of the number three carrier is better than half of number two.
The actual number of new jobs was not even half the number expected.
In December less than half the number of companies announced new stock buybacks, less than half the dollar amount of new cash takeovers of already public companies were announced and insiders are also buying less than half as much as during all of 2011.
One year, there were about half the number of his buoys in the bay.
Ashton has decisions to make at centre, fly-half and number eight in particular after Saturday's performance.
That, in turn, reduced by half the number of medicines tossed out because patients were discharged.
The UK has half the number of lung specialists compared to our European neighbours.
Runoff elections tend to draw less than half the number of voters as regular primaries.
For example, a 20-year-old father will contribute about half the number of mutations of a 36-year-old father.
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Stocks slumped April 5 when the government said 88, 000 jobs were added, less than half the number forecast.
In advertising half the number of production companies are open compared to about a couple of years ago.
With your help, we are working to cut by half the number of malaria-related deaths in 15 African nations.
But the Home Office told BBC Wales the federation was scaremongering, saying fewer than half that number would go.
Proving less popular than GMTV, ratings fell to 600, 000, less than half the number of viewers BBC Breakfast attracts.
The funds are more tightly focused than usual, with about half the number of holdings of many competing funds.
Mr Obama also said he would reduce by more than half the number of US troops in Afghanistan over the next year.
The four biggest are sitting on almost 900 undeveloped sites, half the number of the big supermarkets now operating.
Each includes 100, 000 main entries--half the number in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, but quite enough to get around in Australia.
For the first two years, when letters were most frequent, there were half the number of suicides in patients who received them.
That's exactly half the number who started the year in major-league rotations.
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Compared to a year ago, only about half the number of lawyers and staff are now dedicated to ending cartels, according to former DoJ attorneys.
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There are those that say we use way too many sponges, that you can clean things just as well with half that number of sponges.
That's around half the number from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s.
Police figures show there were 1.2 million registered firearms in the Philippines last year, and about half that number again of unlicensed weapons, AFP reports.
By contrast, half that number of people were killed in 2005.
In the bill, they're going to reduce by half the number of guest workers that would be allowed in the United States from 400, 000 to 200, 000.
Most striking was a promise to cut by half the number of people with inadequate water and sanitation, and to try to do so by 2015.
Mr Bathmaker said the new design was much simpler, with half the number of foundations, which reduced the flood risk, and a swing section for river traffic.
And Spain's cement mixers were on fire: three-quarters of a million homes were built in 2006, half the number in America, whose population is seven times larger.
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