Sentence examples for by about one-half from inspiring English sources
Enacting a cap on pain-and-suffering and punitive damages, changing liability laws and tightening the statute of limitations on malpractice claims would lower total healthcare spending by about one-half of 1% each year -- $11 billion at the current level -- according to an estimate by the nonpartisan agency.
The number of new mortgages approved for house purchases has increased by about one-half in the past year.
Human IgG is slowly broken down in the recipient's body, the concentration falling by about one-half every three weeks, so that effective amounts of antibody can be present for two or three months.
The cuts — a result of a policy known as sequestration — most likely would reduce growth by about one-half of a percentage point in 2013, according to a range of government and private forecasters.
The auto strike has brought General Motors' production essentially to a halt, probably reducing real G.D.P. in the second quarter by about one-half percentage point at an annual rate.
The projects will be in four countries (Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda) where AZT trials showed that short-course AZT treatment can reduce the risk of infection in newborns by about one-half.
Intimate apparel items were down by about one half of 1percentnt, with foun dation garments showing an advertised price loss of 9.3percentnt and slips 3percentnt.
The mean values were reduced by about one half, from approximately 90 mg/l in the early 1970s to approximately 40 mg/l in the 2000s.
Still, several market watchers have argued that 3 mb/d of planned projects have been cancelled or delayed by the 2014 price collapse, and the IEA has noted that upstream investment has dropped by about one half from 2014 to 2016.
The abundance of trinucleotide repeats decreased by about one half for each repeat unit added to the series.
At cut-off level ≥10 rlu/co, this risk was reduced by about one half among women aged 30 or more, whereas among younger women the reduction was about one third.
