Sentence examples for be almost halved from inspiring English sources

Journey times will be almost halved - Paris-Strasbourg will be just two hours and 20 minutes.

The payment level for support for mortgage interest is expected to be almost halved in the autumn when the method for calculating the benefit is changed.

If Iran built a second plant of the same size as the Qum operation and ran them in tandem, the production times described above could be almost halved.

Scientific research, meanwhile, has delivered a string of ever-horrifying statistics to encourage our antibacterial urges, such as the fact that the spread of diarrhoea and gastrointestinal illnesses can be almost halved by practising effective hand hygiene.

The number of peers was to be almost halved, from 826 to 450.

The Coalition government wants the number of members to be almost halved, from 826 to 450.

By then the council workforce will have been almost halved to 2,000.

Canada's Arctic ice shelves, formations that date back thousands of years, have been almost halved in size over the last six years, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.

Today, after the publicity given to Holocaust art, that figure has been almost halved; barely one in 13,000 objects sent for auction is stolen.

Spain's central government budget deficit was almost halved in the first eight months of this year because of higher tax revenue and spending cuts, according to data released Monday by the Spanish finance ministry.

The Thirty Years War, starting in 1618, involved combatants such as Sweden, France, Denmark, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, England, Brandenburg-Prussia, and the Ottoman Empire; populations in some central states were almost halved by cruelty, famine, and disease.