Sentence examples for falling to half from inspiring English sources
Fund-raising continued its decline, falling to half of what it had been in 2003.
With running costs reduced to 2% of total spending by 2015, in other words falling to half the global donor average of 4%, DFID will be in the unusual position of having an increased budget managed with a reduced headcount.
The company said increased production capacity and high inventories had led to a fall in wafer prices, with demand in its key market of Germany falling to half the 2010 level.
With BP's share price falling to half the level it stood at when the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20th, and estimates of how much it will have to fork out to clean up the oil spill and pay compensation rising steadily, Fitch downgraded the oil company's credit rating by six notches to BBB, close to junk.
The generals wanted this force to stay until the Afghans were able to provide these things for themselves.But rather than heed the advice, in May Mr Obama decided on a force of just 9,800 Americans at the beginning of 2015, falling to half that a year later before being fully withdrawn by the end of 2016.
Prices, after falling to half of what they were in the 1990s, have since leveled off.
In a more cleareyed mode, he writes: "She gave the crowds little but a smile and the sidelong glance she was starting to perfect — a look that spoke a thousand words, accompanied by a little sideways drift of the jaw, with the gaze dropping off to the side and her eyelids falling to half-mast.
By 2013, their consumption will need to have fallen to half of present levels.
Initially, pay was £70 a week, enough to live on, but it fell to half that.
Lately, the number has fallen to half that, and with the pope stepping down, it is likely to fall further.
