• About 40 percent of those have been out of work for more than half a year.

    NPR: U.S. Unemployment Rate Holds At 9.7 Percent

  • Capcom waited until August, more than half a year after Microsoft launched its new Xbox, to roll out its first title for the console, zombie thriller Dead Rising.

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  • As a result, everything from plane tickets to hotel rooms to beer tent table reservations are very hard to come by, and often sell out more than half a year in advance.

    FORBES: There's Still Time to Get to Oktoberfest!

  • The average period chief marketing officers hold a job jumped from 34.7 months to 42 months last year, an increase of more than half a year within the space of a year.

    FORBES: CMOs Are Staying on the Job Longer Than Ever

  • For one, Mr. Lauer is a key component of "Today, " which is one of the most profitable shows on NBC bringing in more than half a billion dollars a year in advertising revenue, according to Kantar Media.

    WSJ: Katie Couric Explores Show With Matt Lauer

  • Oil production is now 1.7m barrels a day, little more than half the peak reached a year after Mr Qaddafi seized power, in 1969.

    ECONOMIST: Libya

  • The couple have been planning their big day for more than a year and a half.

    BBC: Wedding plans in chaos due to snow

  • For more than a year and a half, the story of Syria has been told in bodies and bombs.

    CNN: Beyond bodies and bombs: Syrians attempt 'a normal life'

  • When I returned to Baghdad in September, 2008, after more than a year and a half away, I was stunned by the calm.

    NEWYORKER: General Principles

  • Is it possible, do you think, to live that life for more than a year and a half or two years, that seems to be pretty standard these days?

    NPR: The Pressures Of Working In The White House

  • It turned into the exact opposite: a much lawyered affair that has dragged on for more than a year and a half and racked up millions of dollars in legal fees.

    FORBES: Edra Blixseth Gets The Yellowstone Club

  • We offer them more than a year and a half ago 96, 97 per cent of the land, they had no reason to start this uprising in this, this campaign of terror.

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Interview with Zvi Shtauber, Israeli Ambassador

  • But now it plans to focus specifically on claims for whiplash injuries - of which there were more than half a million last year - and how they affect what drivers are paying for insurance.

    BBC: Search the

  • The case has gripped the British public for more than a year and a half, since Williams, an MI6 agent known for his mathematical genius and codebreaking talent, was found dead at age 31 in August 2010.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • At one point recently, annualised turnover reached 1, 100% of market capitalisation. (Compare that with America's Nasdaq market, which barely turns over more than three times in a year.) Now that more than half of all trades take place online, however, the level of average commissions has more than halved.

    ECONOMIST: Korean finance

  • And it provides life-saving medical services to more than half a million Americans every year, in every corner of the country.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs Ryan White HIV/AIDS Act

  • McCurdy, who was president of the intellectual-property business unit at Lucent and responsible for turning that company's intellectual property into more than half a billion dollars a year in revenue.

    FORBES: Managing your knowledge

  • The site of the ancient city, which is carved into rose-red stone, dates back 2, 000 years and is Jordan's top tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year.

    BBC: Obama ends Middle East trip with visit to Petra ruins

  • Obama had also proposed reducing agricultural subsidies to farmers with sales of more than half a million dollars a year, a notion that farm-state senators like Conrad, who have disproportionate influence on the Budget and Finance Committees, rejected.

    NEWYORKER: Money Talks

  • That was slightly more than half the release of a year ago though, with the majority coming from the wind-down of the Citi Holdings portfolio, so investors took less of an issue with the added earnings lift than at JPMorgan.

    FORBES: Citi Cruising After 30% Bump In First-Quarter Profit

  • The economy, which shrank by more than half between 2000 and 2009, has been expanding by more than 7% a year since then, with growth forecast to top 9% this year.

    ECONOMIST: Politics in Zimbabwe

  • And more than half of council workers take home less in a year than councillors can claim in attendance fees.

    BBC: Summer of discontent

  • The Virginia Tech students have visited Chardon more than a half dozen times over the past year to promote healing, said Fetchik, wearing a lapel ribbon in the school's red and black colors.

    NPR: Ohio Students Commemorate Classmates Slain By Teen

  • The last time the world had a cooler than average year was 1976, according to NOAA. That means more than half the people on Earth haven't lived during a cooler than normal year for the globe.

    NPR: World Warm Last Year, But Not Like Record US Heat

  • Almost 30 million adults were in a job in the quarter to last November, up by more than half a million on the previous year.

    BBC: job centre sign

  • One company, KCI based in San Antonio, Texas, handles more than half a million support calls a year for their Negative Pressure Wound therapy system.

    FORBES: Washington Is Tightening Its Grip On Medical Decision-making

  • Toshiyuki Makiguchi, who runs Uwaki Rescue SOS, a Tokyo-based consulting company to help people find out if their partners are cheating, said more than half of his 600 customers a year find some evidence of cheating on their partner's mobile phone.

    WSJ: Japan's Philanderers Stay Faithful to Their 'Infidelity Phones'

  • In an Ipsos Mori survey of more than 4, 500 people published in June this year, more than half of respondents gave the BBC a rating of eight out of 10 or higher.

    BBC: Big pay deals 'unlikely' at

  • It was more than half of what I made in a year.

    FORBES: I Paid Off $35,000 In Debt With The 'Money Lunch'

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