Sentence examples for years the half from inspiring English sources

Mary Wittenberg, the president of the New York Road Runners, which organizes the New York City Marathon and Half-Marathon, said that in the next few years, the half could reach the stature and even the size of the marathon, which counted 38,607 finishers last year.

For at least the last few years, the half-dozen chairs have been occupied by middle-aged white men.

Saracens further made their numerical advantage count through De Kock's first Premiership try in almost two years, the half-back having been set up by Schalk Brits following a driving maul.

In three short years, the half-century mark will have been reached since the U.S. first declared war on cancer, and that is a long time for investors to wait for the proverbial magic bullet to provide a return on investment.

The half-life of DDT in humans is > 4 years; the half-life for DDE is probably longer (Longnecker 2005).

The estimated rate parameters are 0.02 binding sites originating per kb and 1 Mio years, the half-life for a BAS1-binding site is estimated to be 22.7 Mio years.

Job growth in the San Francisco metro area is down to about 1.5% year over year, half the rate for California as a whole.

703 years is the half-life of uranium.

Half of the subjects participated in musical lessons throughout the year; the other half had no music lessons.

And Yahoo's list stays consistent over the years: half of the queries (WWE, Britney Spears, Naruto, American Idol and RuneScape) made Yahoo's top list last year.

In the last 30 years, almost half the coral has disappeared.