Sentence examples for equivalent to half from inspiring English sources

"The numbers who came to Malta last year are equivalent to half our birth rate," says the prime minister, Lawrence Gonzi.

The amount is equivalent to half of what the current president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is paid, plus personal staff and facilities worth $25,000 a year for the rest of Taylor's life.

He warned: "You cannot effectively get £27 billion in one year – which is equivalent to half of the education budget – without laying thousands of people off and without losses of businesses and loss of jobs".

Since 2000, including acquisitions, it has burned up almost £5 billion, equivalent to half of BT's current market value.Far from being the main source of growth for BT, Global has become a big drain on it.

Drug dealing and associated criminal activity produced about $2.3 billion in revenue last year, according to an annual survey by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, a sum that was equivalent to half of Afghanistan's legitimate gross domestic product.

The company reckons that, over a number of years, it will be able to reclaim from the Pentagon "allowable costs" equivalent to half its $2.3 billion investment.But surely defence companies would have wanted to merge and cut costs anyway, to adjust to shrinking markets?

On the other hand, the first set, equivalent to half of the frame, is decoded using the interpolated frame.

If this property holds, then the meeting time of two random walks is equivalent to half of the first hitting time of a single random walk.

UK businesses are sitting on £750bn of profit - equivalent to half of GDP - which currently is not being used to hire more people or increase wages.

It is assumed that the blood of early freshwater fishes, like that of other freshwater animals, was osmotically equivalent to half-strength seawater.

The remaining datasets were truncated such that epochs affected by isolated bursts of head motion exceeding a total absolute displacement of 1.25 mm (equivalent to half-a-voxel in the acquisition plane) as calculated by MCFLIRT FSLL's intramodal motion correction tool) were deleted.