Sentence examples for halve the figure from inspiring English sources

The council said it was looking to at least halve the figure by spring 2014, using one-bedroom flats for small families.

Doubleday's payment was determined by deducting debt and other liabilities from the valuation, then halving the figure.

"I figure this will halve the number of phone calls from kind friends saying, 'I didn't know you were so sick,' " he said recently.

In addition, we found that GRAF1 BAR+PH overexpression (which leads to static tubules; Figure 1F) halved the number of cells internalizing CTxB without effecting transferrin uptake.

The EDA accounts for approximately half of its census tract, so we halved the census figures to estimate the number of persons living in the EDA for each decade.

And, if you can't get accurate figures, halve the amount told to you by the organiser and then work out if it is worthwhile.

The MDG target was to halve this figure i.e. to reduce this 92% to 46%.

But if you halve that figure and save three months of your take-home pay, that generally translates into eight months of payments.

And they mean a target set by Labour 10 years ago - when 3.4 million were living in poverty - to halve that figure by 2010/2011 was missed by about 600,000.

Bon said France Telecom hopes to halve that figure to $28 billion by 2002, and will raise an additional $9 billion to $14 billion when, in several stages over the next two years, it sells shares back to the public that it plans to buy back from Vodafone under the terms of its acquisition of Orange.

A simple hygiene habit – washing hands with soap – could halve this figure.