He completed his first, a half-scale replica of Noah's Ark, in 2004, and used it to take tourists on canal trips, before beginning work on a full-scale version in 2008.
The European Commission recently examined the effects of biofuel mandates, and decided to scale back by half its original 2020 target for transportation fuel made from food sources.
Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
It's a major-key sound, but unlike our major keys, which have a half step between the third and fourth tones, the Lydian scale has a whole step there, and the half step between steps four and five.
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It might be able to demand 6% royalties or more for something ready for large-scale trials, versus half that for a totally unproven treatment.
Dan and Tammy fell into the lower half of the community's pay scale.
For the second half, local success can breed failure at scale.
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More than half of these top-of-the-scale twisters have occurred in just five states: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
If you can keep a lid on spending, the scale of the problem is cut in half in one and a half presidential terms without having to do much more than make sure the statisticians have a slightly quirky inflation model.
In recent months, many economists had suggested that the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of 2013 if job growth accelerated.
But O'Sullivan said he thinks the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of this year if job growth continues to accelerate.
At the other end of the scale was Ian Watson, the Swinton Lions half-back winning a record 27th Wales cap to beat Jim Sullivan's record set in 1939.
It was only half the size of the other two American manufacturers, and scale was becoming all-important.
Even as the integration process is proceeding well, we expect temporary business impact from this large-scale merger but we are optimistic that the second half of 2013 will see more revenue growth momentum and cost synergies.
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The strongest tornado, rated a maximum EF5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale, tracked for nearly an hour and a half along a 38-mile path from Chickasha through south Oklahoma City and the suburbs of Bridge Creek, Newcastle, Moore, Midwest City and Del City.
Prosecutors say Mr. Smith and Mr. Halloran tried to bribe Republican officials into giving Mr. Smith a spot on the party's ticket for mayor, in a wide-ranging plot that eventually ensnared half a dozen New York politicians and has raised questions about the scale of corruption in Albany.
While 750 million is a little less than half that originally reported by AP it is by no means out of scale.
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After a half-century, this remains a thrilling piece, and runs the scale of emotions from reverence to exaltation, all brilliantly executed by Ellington's elite corps of soloists.
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Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne described Ms Smith's plans as "half-baked", and said the government had been in denial about the scale of the knife crime problem.
Today, less than 30 percent of students in the bottom of the income scale enroll in a four-year school, and of those less than half graduate.
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Remember that about a year and a half ago in October of 2004 the Los Angeles Board of Education approved a plan to scale down all the sprawling district's secondary schools and even smaller schools from 350 to 500 students ideally.
Scheduled to be released in the second half of 2013, the new HP ProLiant Moonshot servers will support emerging web, cloud and massive scale environments, as well as analytics and telecommunications.
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In a report released Tuesday, CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project (TMP) forecast half of those hurricanes will develop into major hurricanes ranked as Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength.
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