Even Germany s GDP declined in quarterly terms in the first half of the year. Finland, a staunch supporter of firm austerity policies, is in negative territory for the first half of the year.

I first started thinking about this about a year and a half ago.

And in the first year, I had to fire half of the men.

In the first half of fiscal year 2004, the sector grew by 8.2 per cent.

Ten Bosnia and Herzegovina indictees were transferred to The Hague during the first half of the year.

For the first half of fiscal year 2004, economic health, as measured by employment and output, was mixed.

Indeed, half of what a student learns in the first year of a four year technical course will be out of date by the third year. Change itself accelerates.

Members will remember that half a year ago the Council adopted its first resolution on Darfur, resolution 1556 (2004).

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)

Despite some individual privatization successes during the first half of the year, the overall privatization effort remained lacklustre at best.

In the first three months of the second half of the year approximately 1000 proceedings concerning physical abuse were registered.

In addition, half a million women die in pregnancy each year, most during delivery or in the first few days thereafter.

The first son took his half half of 18 is nine.

In the first half of 2008, commodity prices moved up quickly and plummeted just as fast in the second half of the year. There may well have been speculative behavior that contributed to the rapid swing.

Execution of property related decisions remains limited 22 per cent of cases awaiting execution were fully executed in the first half of 2004 over half the remaining cases have been awaiting execution for over a year.

Return movements continue, steadily increasing since 2002, even if the number of returnees for the first half of this year is still not very high.

Since then, the number of construction jobs has fallen by more than 45 per cent, to 1,737 jobs in fiscal year 2003, and stood at 1,660 in the first half of fiscal year 2004.

As of August 8, Huayuan County had raised more than 21 million yuan of various relief funds this first half year for 13,140 poverty stricken students.

And last year marked half a century since a nuclear power plant first supplied energy to the electricity grid in what is now the Russian Federation.

In the first four months of 2005, 307 fines had already been imposed, or nearly half the number as in the previous year as a whole.

So, their entire year has been cut in half.

The cost has come down by half every year.

Emphasizing the temporary nature of these factors, the reports insist that, though world GDP growth amounted to roughly 3 during the first half of the year, it will pick up in the second half. Driven by this new momentum, growth will finally reach the long elusive 4 rate next year.

That is almost certainly optimistic. In fact, the eurozone will contract in the first half of next year and probably in the second half, because of the deficit cutting policies now being pursued placing further pressure on banks and sovereigns.

According to information collected by the human rights observers of ONUB, 149 alleged violations of the right to life were reported in the first half of the year.

Huge, huge thing. Half a million dollars a year delta.

And the process still takes more than half a year.

It's been running for about a year and a half.

We spent two and a half years conducting research we spent another year and a half in advance development.

To the first son, he left half the camels.

One such project is about a year and a half old.

With real GDP growth around 4 in the first half of the year (though it did fall below 2 in the third quarter), the first arrow has already hit the bull s eye a performance worthy of an A .

According to the data, the availability of first hand houses (only including old houses, but excluding new house rental) in the first half of this year was only 2,006 units, and the number of people waiting for a first hand contract has exceeded 540,000.

About a year from now, we'll have over half a million samples.

She has been in exile for the last year and a half.

So half a year ago, I decided to go to Pakistan myself.

However, in the first half of 2016, the international direct investment in Brazil had reached 33.8 billion, an increase of almost 10 per cent compared to the same period last year.

So for the past year and a half, my team at Push Pop Press and Charlie Melcher and Melcher Media have been working on creating the first feature length interactive book.

A friend of mine once said, You know, a three year old is not half a six year old.

The first half of 2005 demonstrated how efficiently international pressure works.

Norway planned to ratify it during the first half of 2005.

They were probably better in the first half and we came out in the second half and were the better side.

And we're about two and a half years into a five year study.

So we're going to cruise through half a year in about 40 seconds.

No longer must flu have to kill half a million people a year.