Sentence examples for half of industry from inspiring English sources

Surveys of business travelers, who buy only 20percentt of all tickets but account for about half of industry profits, find that executives would rather snooze during long flights than dine on cabernet and caviar.

Although 51% of industry revenue comes from smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and televisions, those five categories will fall to less than half of industry revenue a year from now as nascent product categories gain ground, said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist of the Consumer Technology Assn.

Paper producers account for about half of industry's withdrawals of aquifer water in East Baton Rouge Parish, Carlson said.

3. Similarly, since the 1960s, research and development (R&D) funding by the US government changed from almost twice that of industry to less than half of industry funding levels.

Industry sponsored randomised controlled trials planned subgroup analyses more often than investigator sponsored trials, but still only half of industry sponsored trials reporting results for subgroups explicitly stated such planned analyses in the protocol.

When the former IBM engineer took over as chief executive, Solectron's sales were barely half of industry-pioneer SCI Systems' then-sales of $1 billion.

By the time the Belgian government decided to nationalise steel companies in 1979, Mr Frère owned almost half of the industry.Selling out worked well, since the steel industry was just entering a long and steep decline.

Cutting drug industry profits would get you even less, because half of drug industry profit is less than 20percentthanan physicians' net income.

The United States, the last industrialized country with unregulated drug prices, provides half of the industry's revenues, up from less than a third a decade ago, and most of its profits.

About half of the industry's recycling capacity is idle.

Nevertheless, they hold more than half of the industry's small-business loans.