Sentence examples for declining half from inspiring English sources

In other words, savings were declining half a percent a year, or their spending was growing half a percent faster than their incomes per year for 25 years.

In the security context, certainly in the aftermath of Edward Snowden's disclosures, there is a realization of the "declining half life of secrets" — secrets that were once useful for intelligence purposes for 25 to 50 years are revealed much, much sooner now.

Mr. Sherin and Mr. Neal also both declined half the amount earned under their long-term performance awards.

Its market share declined half a percentage point to 4.3percentt instead of increasing to 5.4percentt.

Rick Ross, who is in the film, said that he declines half of the calls he gets.

And for those who said faith in business has declined, half agreed it's because business "fails to contribute to the greater good".

Lockheed's stock declined one-half a point, to 95 1/4, in trading today on Wall Street.

Rio has been declining for half a century, since it lost its status as the national capital to Brasília.

Of an estimated 1,400 African tongues, 500 are in decline, half of them facing imminent extinction.Mrs Vaalbooi had become a campaigner for the San tongues.

Overall, GBS scale scores for subjects (observed cases) in the active treatment group showed a decline half as large as that reported for patients in the placebo group.

An alarming set of official figures showed that the consumption of power by China's smallest industrial enterprises declined by half in the first half of this year.