Sentence examples for contract by half from inspiring English sources

"The big financiers of venture capital are force-feeding the industry, and it's like force-feeding cows — it makes the industry sick," said Paul Kedrosky, a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation who recently called for the venture industry to contract by half.

This caused the forest fragment to contract by half its size in between 2010 and 2015.

What if, in the next decade, P/E ratios contract by half?

An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on this species found that its range is likely to contract by half in the face of severe change, but unlikely to change much under less severe scenarios.

These are expected to show that the economy has contracted by half a percentage point at an annual rate.

Ameritrade lowered the fee it charges customers to trade options contracts by half, to 75 cents a contract, extending a pricing battle in the discount brokerage industry.

Their success is by no means assured in a country the size of France whose official economy has contracted by half in a decade, whose population is producing less food and importing more and whose unofficial -- or underground -- economy is impossible to measure or predict.

Goldmacher stands by his assertion that SAP cut prices on multi-million dollar maintenance contracts by half for a handful of large customers, and not as part of an existing pricing plan.

The Palestinian economy has contracted by roughly half, according to various estimates.

Zambia's economy contracted by nearly half between 1974 and 1979, and its collapse was prevented only by intervention from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Many of these people may be ill-prepared to find work in a market economy that, while improving, has contracted by nearly half over the past decade.