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Whatever the real value, Lenz says her sales revenue since October is "way off" — by about half from last year.
According to the 2010 census, the black population has shrunk to 49,000 — down by about half from its peak of 96,000 in 1970.
But Mr. van Beurden said he planned to cut the number of shale areas in which Shell is participating by about half from nine currently.
By IHS's estimates, economic growth in these countries has dropped by about half, from 7.4percentt in 2010 to 3.8percentt in 2015.
The researchers also found that the level of web searching for 'global warming' fell by about half from 2004-7 to 2010-13.
Through October, its recalls in the United States and Japan have fallen by about half from 2006, when it recalled 2.1 million vehicles.
Auto parts employment in the United States has dropped by about one-half from 2001 to 2010, as imports from China grew nearly sevenfold over the same period, according to data provided by the senior official, who insisted on anonymity citing an administration policy banning on-the-record comments on a new policy before an official announcement is made.
From 1991 to 2011, the proportion of eighth graders who reported drinking in the previous 30 days fell by about half, to 13 percent from 25 percent.
The article said the equity value of the company had dropped by about half to $1.2 billion from $2.5 billion since financier David Murdock took it private in 2003.
Nobel Prize winner Edmund S. Phelps pointed to studies showing that in the early 1970s the rate of indigenous innovation (as measured by its estimated contribution to the rate of growth in labor productivity) dropped by about half — to around 1percentt since then, from about 2percentt before then.
