Sentence examples for half the officials from inspiring English sources
After months of deadlock and delay, the two sides have agreed to lower the limit on deployed strategic warheads by more than one-quarter and launchers by half, the officials said.
The numbers in the largely Muslim north, from which the Christian and animist south is expected to break away, were lower, but still more than half, the officials said.
"But in the last 15 minutes of the first half the officials got us right up for it by making some strange decisions and getting the fans off their seats.
More than half the officials who were on the district council's 28-person executive board in 1998 have been convicted of crimes.
With this debased coinage he bought up nearly 60 estates of the executed or banished nobles, which, moreover, were granted to him at half the official assessment.
Capital Economics said the slide could knock 1 percentage point off China's GDP, which Choyleva estimates is around half the official measure of 7%.
BEIJING — China's official military budget will rise by just 7.5 percent in 2010, a government spokesman said Thursday, a rate that is about half the official increase in recent years and the first to fall below 10 percent since 1989.
Dr. Salehi-Isfahani suggested that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government might have to resolve the budget deficit problem with an accounting maneuver that would recalculate the value of Iran's oil sales at half the official foreign-exchange rate — 25,000 rials per dollar instead of the central bank's artificial rate of 12,260 rials per dollar.
The businessmen bought the US dollars from the Saigon treasury with their South Vietnamese piasters at half the official exchange rate; they then used this cheaply acquired American currency to import US goods.
This damage cost estimate is about half the official physical damage cost estimate of 100 million US$9(9).
More than half of the officials said that e-mail brought them into contact with individuals from whom they had never heard before and that the electronic communication improved their relations with community groups.
