In stark contrast, the department approved only 39 per cent of protection visa requests for non-boat arrivals in the first half of this financial year, or 909 people from the 2321 people who applied.

作为鲜明的对比，本财年的前半，移民部仅批准了39%的非坐船抵达人的保护签证申请，即从2321位申请者中批准了909人。

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Strictly, this result applies only to the first half of the last century.

严格来讲，这一结论只适用于上个世纪前五十年。

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Energy efficiency was only 0.09 percent worse in the first half of this year than in the same period in 2009, according to statistics released last week.

根据上周发布的官方数据显示，相比于2009年同期，今年上半年的能源效率仅下降了0.09%。

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In fact, in part, because of this, we are only reading approximately half the book, the first five books, to be more specific.

事实上，也部份归因于此，我们大约只能读,其一半的篇幅，更确切的说是前五部。

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For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

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In 2011, prescriptions for Lovaza increased only 2%, and then in the first half of this year they dropped 9%.

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Only eight financial-crisis cases were filed this year, compared with 38 in the first half of last year.

FORBES: Securities-Fraud Suits Plunge To Pre-Crisis Levels

Fans cheered the responders who helped after the marathon but booed the Celtics, who managed only 31 points in the first two quarters, getting their bad half out of the way early this time.

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