That's half the thickness of a sheet of paper.

BBC: Getting the measure of dark energy

Roughly half of this shortfall finds its way onto the balance sheet as a liability. gm is allowed to amortize actuarial losses that make up the other half of the unfunded portion.

FORBES

The four-inch Fun felt a good half-inch smaller than its spec sheet implied -- more akin to an iPhone in size.

ENGADGET: Nyx Mobile Lyuba Max and Fun hands-on Mobile

Scrape half the dough onto one side of the baking sheet.

NPR: Holiday Sweets: On the Road (and in the Mail)

The 1.7 billion shares up for sale represent around 14% of AIA, less than half the 32.9% stake AIG holds, according to a term sheet.

WSJ: Asian Shares Fall

But the volume of the Martian north polar cap is less than half that of the Greenland ice cap, and about four percent of the Antarctic ice sheet.

BBC: By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

But that will matter little to Hodgson as he contemplates the solid defending that yielded his side's first clean sheet since August, not to mention the possibility of sealing a top-half finish at Newcastle next weekend.

BBC: Youssouf Mulumbu

The balance-sheet of Britain's banking system, at 450% of GDP, was half the (relative) size of Iceland's at the end of last year.

ECONOMIST: Iceland

The balance sheet for the whole Eurosystem (including all the national central banks) shows almost half a trillion euros in capital and revaluation reserves.

FORBES: Revised TARGET2 Paper & Implications for ECB of Cyprus Exit

In previous balance sheet recessions, economic cycles have been truncated, and recessions typically occur every two and a half years or so.

FORBES: Recessionary Differentiations

Valdiserri nets out his half of the costs and the rest is a profit margin three times what it gets for raw steel sheet.

FORBES: Man of steel