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The company scraped through a funding death valley late last year after failing to close a Series C financing round, leading it to 'temporarily' let go of around half its staff.

Each had production of around half a million cars.

During that time a gap of around half a percentage point opened up between the two.

GPCRs are involved in many diseases, and are also the target of around half of all modern medicinal drugs.

That select group of around half a dozen includes South Korea, the Czech Republic and Polandnd.

Today, the equivalent of around half the planet's population has flown on a 747.

So critical was the situation that North Korea was short of around half a million tons of food and government hand-outs were inadequate.

The regime change in Afghanistan, and the capture or killing of around half of al-Qaeda's 30 most senior figures, severely constrained the group's operations.

The pressure group estimates that foreign immigrants are now arriving at the rate of around half a million a year, or nearly one a minute.

That is the equivalent of around half the current-account deficit.It is hard to know what share of this debt was asset-backed, let alone mortgage-backed.

Last year's winner Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel is the fastest-selling Booker winner ever, with sales of around half-a-million copies to date.