There are those that say we use way too many sponges, that you can clean things just as well with half that number of sponges.
It was one of more than 60 ships that have been attacked by pirates off the Somali coast this year alone, compared with about half that in 2007, according to a report released earlier this month by Chatham House, a London-based institute that analyzes international affairs.
"The Asian airlines operate with costs that are half that of Emirates and a third of Lufthansa's, " he says.
Yuan Zhongmin, who runs the centre, says that with half his former workforce he can shift 60, 000 cartons every ten hours, compared with 25, 000 previously.
Part of the reason is that with half its people under the age of 20, the kingdom is having to cope with a big population bulge.
Chery's vehicle assembly line runs at a rather slow pace, churning out one car every 120 seconds compared with half that at the best North American plants.
With the knowledge that half the Italian electorate still supports both his domestic and foreign policies, Mr Berlusconi has no intention of bowing out of Italian politics.
Paul Marsh, of the London Business School, says studies suggest that, in the American market, the announcement of a buy-back boosts the share price by around 2%, compared with around half that in Britain.
More than 60 ships have been attacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden this year alone, compared with about half that number in 2007, according to a report released earlier this month by Chatham House, a London-based institute that analyzes international affairs.
With average fees running about half that of nursing facilities and with an environment that is often more attractive to seniors (and to their adult children), residential care facilities are become a more popular choice for consumers.
To his credit, he has refused to be satisfied with a system that leaves more than half of school-leavers with indifferent qualifications.
He shares it all with a menagerie that includes half a dozen horses, three dogs, two ducks and a turkey.
Tippett then smacks the ball with such force that I half expect to see only a spectral puff of smoke hanging over his tee.
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We have something like 8, 000 banks out there now and one analyst told me he thought we can end up with half of that.
In Michigan, for example, more than 200 districts formed a consortium that operates with a half-dozen "core" providers, each with its own menu of investment options.
In line with that, more than half of the total growth in oil demand will be in Asia, and two-thirds of the new electric power capacity.
With about half of that take going to theater owners and the cost of marketing the movie added in the film was not a hit.
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For example, lung cancer deaths in women increased by almost a factor of 17 in the last 50 years, with half of that occurring in the last 20 years.
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Around 60% receive 10 or fewer messages on an average day, with nearly half saying that the volume of mail they receive has stayed the same over the past year.
When you are trying to hit the ball on a sweet spot that is minuscule to begin with, playing shafts that are a half-inch too long or short will make this nearly impossible.
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If you combine the unemployment statistics above with the fact that nearly half of those people (5.5 million) have been without a job for more than 6 months, you realize that something is amiss.
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Mandarin competence takes 2, 200 class hours, with half of that time spent in a country where it's spoken, according to the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute, whereas Spanish can be learned in 600 to 750 class hours.
In fact, design flash sales site Fab.com found that more than 50% of its sales from Black Friday through Cyber Monday came from people who joined via social sources, with half of that coming from people who joined the site through Facebook.
However, the parliament's negotiator on the deal, Dutch liberal Sophie in 't Veld, said it was "telling and disappointing" that after nine years of negotiations with "our closest friend and ally", the US, "we can only come up with an agreement that commands half-hearted support from a divided house".
England's first-half performance was very good with the players they had, so why not continue that with the same players in the second half and then make changes later?
This means that over time much smaller estates would be hit with a rate that would confiscate nearly half of a lifetime of savings or business success.
The Wales fly-half followed that up with a superb penalty from a metre inside his own half, which soared straight and true to bisect the Munster posts.
Wright was listed in that document with relation to claims of a half-dozen rules that the association said the Hurricanes violated.
Launch another app and that will be cut in half, with the two apps sharing that mondo display.
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It's a program that's half under safeguards, with the country that is receiving all the benefits deciding which part of its program is under the safeguards.
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