Very few funds manage to consistently repeat top-half or top-quartile performance.
All five clubs rank in the league's top half in either offensive or defensive efficiency, but neither rates in the top half of both categories.
By that logic, the Spending Review is regressive in the broad sense (worse for the bottom half than the top half) but when it comes down to specifics, is actually going to squeeze the middle a little bit more than the absolute poor.
Half the top ten are men and half are women, although Roger Federer is light years ahead of anyone else thanks to his longtime dominance and 10 lucrative sponsorship deals.
Only 55 percent of top-half managers ending in March 2008 were able to stay in the top-half the following 12 months, ending March 2009.
Of those managers, only 14 percent were in the top-half for three years in a row and 8 percent stayed in the top-half for four years straight, ending in March 2010.
And Hibs ended the half on top, with Riordan forcing Paul Gallacher into a fine, one-handed save with another free-kick.
Another time the investigators discovered that roughly half the top executives of a company were unindicted co-conspirators in a fraudulent deal.
Falkirk ended the half on top, with Enoch Showunmi flashing a drive well wide from the edge of the box after a neat turn.
Many of those early fortunes have kept a place somewhere on the list, though it turns out that half the top ten then are gone.
More than half the top 20 were in London, but Woodlands Road West in Virginia Water, Surrey, was the dearest outside the city, Lloyds TSB said.
Liverpool finished the half on top, Gerrard shooting wide from a promising position after being teed up by Maxi, but it was Bolton who made the more sprightly start to the second period.
Half the top 10 scorers in the tournament have a strike rate of better than the run-a-ball rate of 100 and considerably so in some cases - but Trott and Bell sit in the mid-90s.
West Ham, seeking a first win at Tottenham since 1999, actually finished the first half on top and they got going in similar fashion after the break, Cole drawing an important save from Gomes with a fierce drive.
But as the season nears its half way mark, Eibar has nudged its way into the top half of the table and is proving a beacon of fastidiousness in a league that has long sagged heavily with debt.
These are mainly in the top half of households by income, with the highest percentage of itemizers in the top income tax bracket.
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Film-based musicals comprised about half of the top 10 grossing musicals in each of the last 10 years.
Its 16% premium to NAV puts it in the top half by that measure.
The Welsh team were without half a dozen top players including James Collins and Craig Bellamy.
Power quality ratings are now in the top half, belying the image of junky Korean cars.
More than half of the top 15 airports in the U.S. are majority regional-airline flights.
Average pay in the top half is higher than average pay in the bottom half.
The top half would use the liquid-fuelled core-stage technology and engine that powers the Ariane 5.
Including Moskovitz and Zuckerberg, half of the top 20 youngest billionaires built their fortune in tech.
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Morgan Chase, have found it hard to break into Wall Street's top half-dozen firms, the bulge bracket.
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Power quality ratings put Hyundai solidly in the top half, which belies the image of junky Korean cars.
More than half of these top-of-the-scale twisters have occurred in just five states: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
L. East that ranked in the top half of the league in runs scored, and they ranked just seventh.
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