Sentence examples for halving the rate from inspiring English sources
By halving the rate at which you breathe, you lower your blood pressure and trigger the body's relaxation response.
The company has credited the payouts for helping it achieve strong sales growth and halving the rate at which workers leave the company.
Sports Direct has credited its bonus scheme, which handed generous payouts to eligible workers, for helping it achieve strong sales growth during a tough time for retailers and halving the rate at which workers leave the company.
His goals this time round, such as halving the rate of inflation of university tuition fees and paving the way for the creation of 600,000 new jobs in the natural-gas industry, seem relatively inconsequential.
By then the list should honour Moses and be pruned to ten goals aimed squarely at reducing poverty, boosting education (for example, extending girls' schooling by two years) and improving health (say by halving the rate of malaria infection).
Although researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) acknowledge that the decline is still "well below" the government's national target of halving the rate of teenage conceptions by 2010, the research is being heralded as a small but significant victory.
There will be a new reoccupation relief to encourage the use of vacant town centre shops, halving the rates for new occupants.
We have seen a very significant increase in the prison population since 1993 and an almost halving in the rate of crime.
Howard told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "We have seen a very significant increase in the prison population since 1993 and an almost halving in the rate of crime.
Fundoplication produced a dramatic symptomatic improvement associated with a halving in the rate of pulmonary exacerbations.
In contrast to our findings, Hartman et al observed a halving in the rate of hospital admissions for status asthmaticus from 1.98 per 1,000 children in 1992 to 0.93 per 1,000 children in 2006 in their study of 28,309 hospitalized children in the US state of New Jersey.
