Sentence examples for first halved from inspiring English sources

Airlines at first halved and then largely eliminated commissions on domestic flights, forcing many agents to add fees to ticket prices.

I got that down to under £5m in my first year, halved that in my second year, and this year was heading for further improvement.

One of those states was Tasmania, where the cooling-off period for buying a second or third gun was halved after being described by the police minister, Rene Hidding – who was a member of Rundle's government – "as unnecessary and frustrating red tape".

Transduction was performed three consecutive days, on second and third day with halved amount of C-MYC lentivirus.

The first course -- halved fingerling potatoes tossed in a foamy vinaigrette cushioned with cubes of foie gras -- embodied the new style of cooking that I would experience throughout the week: good ingredients, nonchalantly presented and paired with sauces rooted in classic French technique.

where the prime denotes that the first term is halved.

The one-shilling entrance charge was quintupled for the first night, and halved for the Tuesday performance.

If this event occurs over 0.10 seconds, a speed of 6.20 m·s−1 will be registered, whereas if it occurs over 0.20 seconds the speed is halved to 3.10 m·s−1.

After years of stellar growth, WaMu announced in late July that its second-quarter profits had halved compared with the same period in 2003.

The Nintendo Company, the maker of video game consoles, said that its fiscal first-half profit almost halved because of declining sales of its Game Boy Advance hand-held game player and foreign currency losses.

As one of my fellow judges commented in the Man Booker shortlist meeting, this was the point at which the gameshow aspects of a book prize start to take over: we took a list of 13 first-rate novels and halved it for no other reason than that's the way the game works.