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The pound has risen by around half a cent against the dollar since the speech began, erasing most of its losses to $1.551.

A recent study which tracked 50 countries between 1960 and 2000 shows that every additional year of average educational attainment a nation achieves raises the average annual GDP by around half a percentage point.

Most of Brazil's farmland is pasture, running to some 175m hectares and occupied by around half a cow per hectare.

Over time, such an approach should beat the market (before fees) by around half a percentage point a year.Can it work?

As a result, a big appreciation of the dollar cuts GDP growth by around half a point over the following year, according to the Fed's models.

This shows that over the past 60 years the region has warmed up by around half a degree Celsius every decade.

The Telegraph has seen its print sales drop by around half over the last 10 years.

This number compares to a commitment by Germany to take around half a million refugees a year for the next few years.

With all parties struggling to address what Labour leader Ed Miliband has called the "cost of living crisis", Clegg wants to drive home the message that raising the allowance from £6,475 in 2010 to £10,000 by 2014-15, takingy taroundaround half a million people out of income tax altogether, is a Lib Dem rather than a Conservative achievement.

But £59bn of austerity has still only reduced it by around half-a-percentage point of GDP, to 4.3%.

McLean's film shows its high IQ by letting nothing scary happen for around half an hour; there is something absorbingly real and even romantic in the way a shy attraction develops between Liz and Ben.