Sentence examples for half of the sectors from inspiring English sources

More than half of the sectors we surveyed had increased their gender diversity year-on-year.

Nine of the 10 Standard & Poor's sectors posted gains after only half of the sectors managed that feat in March.

Revenue for an average room for the sector was down 2percentt in the first quarter, he said, adding that Lightstone's portfolio accounts for almost half of the sector.

The stress test results published by the Bank of Spain on Friday underlined the performance gap between the commercial banks that account for half of the sector and many of the savings banks whose bankrolling of the Spanish property surge left them exposed as the construction boom collapsed.

Although most patients are treated in outpatient care, half of the sector's budget is spent on intramural care [ 2].

Mr Santos has said the country should start preparing for the pact to come into force in the first half of 2012.But the sectors of the Colombian economy that need more time to adapt may gain a reprieve if the political winds in the United States shift back to the left.

Local government provided more than half of the public sector jobs, with the biggest sector being transportation and warehousing, including operators of mass transit systems.

At the time of the election, the president may be able to say (more or less accurately) that where the last Republican president oversaw the loss of 653,000 private-sector jobs while creating 1.7m government jobs, he presided over a gain of nearly 800,000 jobs in the private sector while trimming back nearly half of the public-sector fat added by Mr Bush.

The savings banks, which make up about half of the banking sector, are mutually owned, but subject to public-sector boards.

Highlighting the fact that just 15% of the private sector workforce is unionised, compared with over half of the public sector workforce, he told unions they needed to change "if that is to change".

Pedersen and Smith (1998) using comprehensive survey data find that almost half of the informal sector activities in Denmark is carried out within the construction sector.