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As a result, the number of people taking them soon went down by almost a half.

This strongly increases the efficiency of separation, reducing stripping steam consumption by 16.5% and processing time by almost a half, from 3.0 h to 1.8 h.

Yet when trialled in hospitals around the world, it was found to have a dramatic effect – it cut complications by a third and deaths by almost a half.

The city limits became coextensive with the limits of the county, thus increasing the city's population by almost a half overnight and greatly expanding its tax base.

Krayzelburg's time of 1 minute 57.38 seconds broke the mark he set exactly one year ago by almost a half of a second.

Despite his boasts about how the deficit has been reduced by almost a half since he came to power, the programme is well off track.

In all, prosecutors said, KAI had over five years overstated sales by almost a half-billion dollars and falsified over $40 million in profits.

Zatopek won by almost a half-mile, and although he was paraded around the track on the shoulders of Jamaica's 4x400-meter relay team, he was ready to end his marathon career.

So far the law has put some 42,000 "third strikers" behind bars, and its supporters say it has helped to cut crime by almost a half.In this section Into the final straight Worse than last time?

Last week, when Colombian Rigoberto Uran won stage 12's time trial by almost a minute and a half, I thought we had found our Giro d'Italia 2014 champion.

This would be the first new distillery built by IDL in almost a half century.