Sentence examples for halved the proportion from inspiring English sources
UNHCR has halved the proportion of its budget spent on headquarters costs, but there was an increasing gap between needs and resources available.
In the past five years the landfill tax has halved the proportion of waste collected by local authorities and buried in the ground to 15.7percentnt.
Additionally, both arrangements more than halved the proportion of 'dangerous' speeders travelling faster than 20 km/h over the speed limit.
The finance ministry has already halved the proportion of their assets that banks need to hold as capital, to 4%, half the minimum laid down by the Bank for International Settlements.
Target 1.C of the MDGs is to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, between 1990 and 2015.
Another target under MDG7 was to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, by 2015.
Last year, the education secretary, Damian Hinds, set out an ambition to halve the proportion of five-year-olds not meeting expected standards in such skills.
The first millennium development goal, to halve the proportion of people living on less than $1.2575p5perper day, is a case in point.
Its key recommendations include setting goals to: Halve the proportion of people who earn less than two-thirds of median hourly pay.
Mr. Annan stakes out worthy goals for the next 15 years: to halve the proportion of the world's people -- currently one in five -- whose income is less than a dollar a day, and to halve the proportion of people -- also one in five -- without access to safe drinking water.
