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Local advertising was again stronger, increasing 4percentt in the first half compared with the first half of 2003.

The price of holding a Tour event there would cut the number of rounds by roughly half, compared with the city's thirteen other courses.

On Wednesday, Pulte said its profit in the third quarter fell by more than half, compared with the same period a year earlier.

Earnings from Zurich's life insurance operations rose 7.3percentt in the first half, compared with the first half of 2000, reaching $396 million.

Women who conceived a child after diagnosis, in fact, appeared to cut their risk of death in half, compared with the women who did not have a child.

In addition, polyploid speciation is typically associated with the transition from outcrossing to self-fertilization, which reduces Ne by at least a half compared with the parental species25.

Although the Zeeman splitting has an undesirable effect of reducing the ODMR contrast by about a factor of 4, the linewidth of each component is decreased by half compared with that of the major peak in the field-free region.

The following results were obtained: (1) The RS and the ST reactor can double the energy gain and reduce CO2 emission by one-half compared with the ITER-like reactor.

Though the original report found that the bill would reduce the number of immigrants in the country illegally by just 25 percent, the analysis of the final bill estimates "that the net inflow would be reduced by between one-third and one-half compared with the projected net inflow under current law".

The polypeptide transport activity was reduced by approximately one-half compared with the uncross-linked material, possibly due to partial restrictions imposed by the cross-link.

Chase Blackburn, Pierce's replacement in the middle, lacked crispness in his tackling in the early action as the Bears had 282 yards in the first half compared with 99 for the Giants.