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By 2012, the poverty rate had dropped by more than half from a decade before.

And all that this money has garnered is 55,880 votes -- with half from a race that was only symbolic.

Since 2006, gaming revenue has dropped by half, from a peak of $5.2 billion to $2.7 billion.

Partners' profits would be cut in half, from a base level of $600,000 to $700,000 on average.

Andrew Gollan at Investec issued a hold note, saying: Another strong half from a financially strong Qinetiq.

Only half of each country's votes will come from mass telephone voting, with the other half from a reinstated jury.

In the first quarter this year GM's share of cars and light trucks was 29%, off a point and a half from a year ago.

Sweden accepted 44,000 asylum-seekers in 2012, up by nearly a half from a year earlier.

The volume of tax-exempt debt for hospitals in the first half of the year has fallen by nearly half from a year ago, said David Johnson, a managing director at BMO Capital Markets.

Overall, the Financial District has 5.2percentt of its space available, a decline of more than half from a year ago.

England were, by then, 13-6 ahead thanks to two Ford penalties and a try initiated by the outside-half from a set-piece just inside Samoa's half.