Growth was 140% in the first half of 2007 and 50% in the first half of this year, according to market research firm NPD Group.
Through his statements above, Professor Yunus implicitly recognizes that free market capitalism is working in the half of the world in which it is practiced.
The second half of the constituency name is taken from the small town of Chipping Ongar, which is in the northern half of the constituency.
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The rise in the Consumer Price Index declined from a high of 6% in the first half of 1970 to about 2.7% in the first quarter of 1971.
Ounjian expects global smartphone sales to grow 74.7% in the second half of 2007 to 77.9 million from the 44.6 million sold in the second half of 2006.
His projection is a significant increase from the actual 37.1% increase in the first half of 2007 to 58.2 million from 38.8 million reported in the first half of 2007.
At Random House in particular, U.S. digital publishing revenues grew to 27% of the total in the first half of 2012, up from 20% in the first half of 2011.
The company also recently announced two new upcoming applications, Workday Big Data Analytics, expected in the second half of 2013, and Workday Recruiting, expected in the first half of 2014.
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The U.S. dollar fell about 2% in 2010 and it continued to lose ground against global currencies in the first half of 2011, depreciating 3% in the first half of the year.
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In Britain the rental yield on arable land fell from 3.4% in the second half of 2003 to 1.75% in the first half of 2011, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
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Average leisure property prices in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney recovered from a 3.8% drop in the first half of 2011 to see a 0.3% increase in the second half of the year.
Just as reducing the constraints on trade in goods made the world richer in the second half of the 20th century, so reducing the constraints on the movement of people could be a powerfully enriching force in the first half of the 21st.
But for all their collective success in recent years, South Korea has yet to produce an individual golfer to dominate the game in the way that Sweden's Annika Sorenstam did in the early 2000s or Lorena Ochoa of Mexico did in the latter half of the decade.
The Mexican economy expanded by an average of 4.4 percent in the first half of the year, but in June the monthly GDP proxy index at the Central Bank (Banxico) showed growth dipping to 3.8 percent, mainly because of a slowdown in U.S. demand.
But academics researching the social history of Britain in the second half of the 20th century may perhaps grant him the immortality of a footnote.
And then the big multinational began to shift its manufacturing facilities off-shore, the first big wave of deindustrialization in the second half of the 1980s.
McGhee gave Darren Mackie the chance to level the score and rekindle the Dons' fading hopes of finishing in the top half of the league.
The company expects to close the pending acquisition of Quest Software in the second half of the third quarter.
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ST-Ericsson says it is collaborating with seven of the top nine handset makers on devices and expects accelerated sales of new products in the second half of the year.
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Washington shot 63.2 percent from the field (24 of 38) in the first half, but the Nets defense held them to just 43.6 percent (17 of 39) in the second half, including 8 of 21 in the third quarter.
We see the stable prosperity many of us experienced in the second half of the twentieth century as more of a historical aberration.
Moreover, Carrefour's stop-and-go policy of cutting prices in the first half of the year and raising them in the run-up to the Christmas season irritated customers, who voted with their feet.
Meanwhile Gateshead have been rewarded for the gamble of turning full-time in the summer by establishing themselves in the top half of the division, in only their second season after promotion.
Prices of the food grain to be supplied under the program would be frozen for three years from the date of implementation, expected in the second half of the year.
World Peace grabbed Knight around the neck and struck him in the jaw with the knuckles of his mostly open hand on Sunday with 1:43 left in the first half of the Lakers' 98-97 win over the Pistons.
Beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood of Hassan el-Banna in 1928, followed by the movements founded by Islamist ideologues like Abul ala Maududi, Sayyid Qutb and the extremist Deobandi creed in South Asia, radical Islam established a strong presence in the Muslim world in the second half of the 20th century.
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The economy will expand by just 1.3% in 2010, according to the average of independent forecasts made in the first half of April and compiled by the Treasury.
Building upon what has been achieved so far in the decade: Scotland, as the rest of the UK widened the focus for ESD in the second half of the decade, from the formal education sector to community learning.
Most of Ukraine's Catholics live in the western half of the country, especially in Galicia, which was a part of predominately Catholic Poland between 1919 and 1939.
Online retailer Amazon announced 100 news jobs at its Dublin development centre in May, and the body representing technology firms in Ireland said some 4, 000 new posts had been created in the sector in the first half of the year.
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