Niger and Malawi, for example, cut under-five deaths by nearly half between 1990 and 2007.
例如尼日尔和马拉维在1990 - 2007年间将5岁以下儿童的死亡率减少了一半。
The Yangtze river's water level in the provincial capital, Wuhan is rising by nearly half a meter per day.
长江在省会武汉的水位每天上升半米。
Heart rates also fell by nearly half without much effect on blood pressure or the strength of the heart-beat.
心率下降了近一半，但对血压和心跳强度没有产生太大的影响。
Jobs in the third sector are down by nearly half, and vacancies in the public sector have decreased by 7.5 per cent.
因为第三部门的职位需求下降了近一半，而公营部门则下降了7.5%。
She says her sales have fallen by nearly half this year, in part because it has been hard to secure enough inventory.
她说，她的销售额在今年已经下降了将近一半，部分原因是不能保证足够库存的安全。
A one-year program saves you money by lowering the tuition cost by nearly half and limiting your time out of the workforce.
一年制的项目，可以节省你一半的学费，并且让你的职业生涯中断时间最短。
LinkedIn shares had fallen by nearly half since a peak of almost $260 a share last fall and ended trading on Friday at $131.08.
自去年秋天的近260美元每股的峰值以来，领英的股价已经下跌了近一半，周五收市时报131.08美元每股。
In America sales of cars and light trucks in December fell by 33.5% compared with a year ago, and in Spain they crashed by nearly half.
在美国，12月的轿车以及轻型卡车的销量与上一年同期相比下降了百分之33.5%。同一项数据在西班牙下降了将近一半。
But whilst Sears' share price has tumbled by nearly half since last summer, the shares of rivals such as J.C. Penney and Macy's have also plunged.
但是自从去年夏天sears股票跌落近一半的同时，它的竞争对手如j.cpenney和梅西百货股票也有所回落。
Numbers of pupils taking French and German GCSEs have fallen by nearly half since 2001, but were low even then at 347, 000 and 135, 000 respectively.
参加法语和德语会考的小学生自2001年来已经少了一半，即便那个时候分别也不过347000和135000人。
The unemployment rate fell in that month by nearly half a point, to 9.4%, but that was mainly because so many jobless workers gave up and stopped looking.
当月失业率下降近0.5个百分点，达到9.4%，但是这主要是因为不少失业人员放弃了找工作。
The most expensive watches have been hit especially hard: in September sales of platinum watches, for instance, were down by nearly half compared with last year.
越是昂贵的手表，收到的打击越大：比如说，今年七月铂金表的销量比去年同期下降了一半。
New figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons are expected to show that the number of men opting for breast-reduction procedures last year rose by nearly half.
英国整型外科医师协会新发布的数据将显示，去年选择进行缩胸手术的男性人数增长了几乎一半。
By one estimate, people daydream through nearly half of their waking hours.
据估计，人们在醒着的时候，有近一半的时间都在做白日梦。
In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours a week.
1981年，美国儿童平均每周花在家务上的时间略少于两个半小时；到1997年，这个时间达到近6个小时。
China had 899 national wetland parks by the end of 2020, and nearly half of the country's wetlands are protected by some level of government.
截至2020年底，中国已有899个国家湿地公园，并且近一半的湿地都受到各级政府的保护。
By midmorning, nearly half of the Americans were wounded, but the militants directed their gunfire on the arriving medevac helicopters, preventing them from landing.
到早晨时，近一半的美国人都受伤了。而武装分子们将炮火对准了即将赶来的救援直升机，防止他们着陆。
The group was split evenly by gender and nearly half were white, 24 percent were black, 21 percent were Asian-American and the rest were from other groups.
研究人员按照性别将研究对象平均分为两组，其中近一半是白人，24%是黑人，21%是亚裔美国人，以及一些其它种族的人。
Meanwhile the price of the iron ore the steelmakers import as their core ingredient rose by nearly 50% in the first half of the year, squeezing margins.
同时钢厂进口的铁矿石原材料的价格在上半年上涨了将近50%，进一步挤压利润空间。
Nearly half of them prefer having a gossip face-to-face (48%), rather than on the phone (36%), by email (7%), or via text message (6%).
近半数的人(48%)喜欢面对面说闲话，超过喜欢通过电话说闲话的人(36%)，7%的人通过电子邮件说闲话，6%的人通过手机短信。
Nearly half of us prefershavingsa gossip face-to-face (48%), rather than on the phone (36%), by email (7%), or via text message (6%).
近半数的人(48%)喜欢面对面说闲话，超过喜欢通过电话说闲话的人(36%)，7%的人通过电子邮件说闲话，6%的人通过手机短信。
A study of Britain's food system found that nearly half of food-vehicle miles (ie, miles travelled by vehicles carrying food) were driven by cars going to and from the shops.
一项针对英国食品制度的研究发现，“食品运输里程”(即运送食品的车辆行驶里程)有近一半是由送货到商店及拉货出商店(将买好的产品运送回家)的车子所行驶的。
In addition, nearly half of the respondents said they were worried about ACTS of revenge by the perpetrators.
此外，将近一半的受访者称担心被打击报复。
Nearly half of nine to 12-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social networking site, according to a poll by the European Commission (EC).
根据欧洲委员会（EC）的调查显示，英国几乎一半的9至12岁的儿童在社交网络站点上都有网络身份。
The winning time, 6:14:47, by Matti Breschel of Team CSC, based in the Netherlands, was nearly a half hour slower than last year’s time, when it was cooler and drier.
第一名是来自荷兰CSC车队的玛蒂。 他用时六小时十四分左右，比去年第一名用时多了几乎半小时，去年比今年凉爽干燥。
That sediment flow itself, meanwhile, is shrinking; almost 50, 000 large dams have over the past half- century cut the flow by nearly a fifth.
与此同时，泥沙流本身也在逐渐消减。在过去半个世纪中，近50000个大型大坝截断近1/5的泥沙流。
That sediment flow itself, meanwhile, is shrinking; almost 50, 000 large dams have over the past half- century cut the flow by nearly a fifth.
与此同时，泥沙流本身也在逐渐消减。在过去半个世纪中，近50000个大型大坝截断近1/5的泥沙流。
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