Patients who were among the first half of all TB deaths succumbed within 45 days.
This led to a series of high-profile arrests and seizures by the Garda Síochána in the first half of 1998, including the death of member Rónán Mac Lochlainn who was shot dead trying to escape from police following an attempted robbery of a security van in County Wicklow.
In Europe, even during the bloodiest periods — the 17th century and the first half of the 20th — deaths in war were around 3 percent.
During the first half of 1890, after the deaths of fellow Ramakrishna disciples Balaram Bose and Suresh Chandra Mitra, Narendra returned to Baranagar Math because of ill health and to arrange for the math's financial support.
Officials say that in the first half of this year it overturned 15% of death sentences.
By 2050, America's centenarians will number twice the current population of Washington, DC.In the first half of the 20th century, lower death rates in early life accounted for much of the increase in life expectancy.
I have overcome two life-threatening ailments in the first half of my life and defied death on four occasions - all in Haiti.
The success of homicide investigations has improved greatly since 1990: in the first half of the period, only 36% of deaths led to a homicide conviction; in the second half, 68% did so, an improvement that may arise from changed police attitudes, improvements in forensic science and more willingness on the part of juries to convict.
Smallpox rose dramatically as a proportion of all causes of death in the first half of the eighteenth century, but then declined somewhat in the second half of the century.
New York-based Human Rights Watch says at least 2,053 civilians have been killed in an estimated 95 attacks during the first half of 2014, compared with 3,600 deaths in the first four years of the conflict.
