Sentence examples for half of spending from inspiring English sources

Household consumption, which accounts for half of spending, fell by 1.2% during 2011.

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will account for almost half of spending by 2015.

These account for nearly half of spending by internet-connected American households, but are thought to be a much smaller share of Amazon's sales.

But just before Christmas, White House officials decided to scale back the aid package to a year and a half of spending, seek 30 Blackhawks immediately, and cut financing for some development programs by about half, officials said.

"We found huge disparities: more than half of spending on government projects in Uganda was coming from non-government sources", said Rufus Pollock, co-founder and director of OKFN.

The top 5 percent of such patients account for nearly half of spending (more than $600 billion a year), and the cost per capita of 1 percent of such patients is $90,000 compared with $236 per capita of the bottom 50 percent.

Osborne says the UK is unusually internationally in having about half of government spending not covered by spending controls.

Nondefense discretionary spending makes up less than half of discretionary spending.

It spends a mere $4,000 per pupil, less than half of classroom spending in New York City public schools.

In fact, half of discretionary spending still goes for defense.

Half of PAC+ spending will go to enrollment and half to advertising.