One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

As much as we know about tobacco in the United States and the fact that there are only half the number of people smoking than used to be the case, it's still expected to rise by 45% worldwide By 2030 the deaths attributed to smoking will increase from four to ten million.

就我所知美国的烟民情况,在美国吸烟的人数,只有过去的一半,在世界范围内仍有预计45%的增长,到2030年,死于吸烟的人数,将由四百万增长至一亿

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The number of electrons in an atom is deduced to be approximately equal to half the atomic weight.

原子中的电子数,将近是原子质量的一般。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The World Health Organization aims to reduce by half the number of people who die from tuberculosis by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

We'll get to oxidation number in the second half of this course, but it's not in any way the same idea as formal charge.

我们会在课程的后半部分讲到氧化数，但它和形式电荷完全不是同一个概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven to two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

In the phonebook, I just kept dividing and dividing Mike Smith and dividing into half and in the end I found Mike Smith 50 or I found the number 50.

在电话簿的例子中，我先将其划分为两部分,接着再划分，最后就可以找到,或者数字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A recent report predicted that the number of mobile phone accounts worldwide will reach almost four and a half billion this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

This pool, twelve very large studies, if you put all the number of subjects in those studies together, it would come up to a million and a half people.

这项研究汇总了十二个大型研究,如果把所有研究的受测者数量加起来,将有一百五十万之多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

By their count, the number fell from more than a half-million in nineteen eighty to about three hundred forty-three thousand in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The number of infected men, women and children is estimated at more than five and a half million -- or eleven percent of the population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The island population is estimated by the UN at over half a million, with an equal number of Cape Verdeans living abroad.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Of that number,about half are thought to have entered the country illegally,with the rest overstaying their visas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Malhotra says the number of customers is down by half, compared to last year, as surging gold prices and the global economic recession scare away people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19