Sentence examples for containing almost half from inspiring English sources

The PSDB alone will run seven states (out of 27), containing almost half of Brazil's 175m people, including the two largest, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais.

It is also extinct over most of its former range, and now almost the entirety of the wild breeding population of just over 500 birds is in Morocco, at Souss-Massa National Park, where there are three documented colonies, and near the mouth of the Oued Tamri (north of Agadir), where there is a single colony containing almost half the Moroccan breeding population.

Its basin, sprawling across about two-fifths of the European part of Russia, contains almost half of the entire population of the Russian Republic.

The genus Solanum contains almost half of all the species in the family, including all the species of wild potatoes found in the Western Hemisphere.

It now contains almost half a million people and has sprawled into a metropolis centred around the similarly fast-growing city of Phoenix.It is the quintessential low-slung suburban city what Yale University urbanist Dolores Hayden calls a "boomburb".

The volva is thin, smooth and sac-like, although may be quite extensive and contain almost half the stipe.

Clade V contains almost half of the genus, with most species currently distributed in New Guinea.

However, the mature sperm transcriptome contained almost half of our spermatogenic gene dataset (1216/2748) and the zygote transcriptome contained 64% of our oogenic dataset (1117/1732), which represent 45% and 23% of the sperm and zygote transcriptomes.

Rsc3, Rsc8 and Rsc30 are components of the RSC chromatin remodeling complex which contains almost half of the known bromodomains in the yeast genome for binding acetylated lysines [ 15].

However, there were only 24 networks with 10 or more detected members totaling 664 (54%) known infectives, thus indicating that most networks are very limited in size, although they combine to contain almost half of the 4091 infected individuals,.

For high-risk patients defined for example as people 60 years and older who have not had a colonoscopy in the past 10 years: 16% of the population are in this group but it contains almost half of the cancers (49.1%) and 28% of the advanced adenomas.