Because we all knew that just six years earlier, half as many penguins had been oiled and rescued and only half of them had survived.

Both of these countries are dark compared to Puerto Rico, which has half as many residents as either Haiti or the Dominican Republic.

How many of us here, as TEDsters in the audience, spend more of our time in the bottom half of this equation, in the denominator?

It was half as long.

Such threats to health and the environment are not uncommon in China. The water in as many as half of the country s rivers and lakes is unfit for human consumption or contact.

About half of them are conflict affected countries, and many of them have substantial external arrears.

So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.

And about two and a half, 3,000 sharks were killed up till '85, many by Norwegian vessels.

Many of these do it yourself practices were lost in the second half of the 20th century.

Typically, approximately half the participants are from Italy, with many of the remainder coming from developing countries.

Then another character was a half woman, half cheetah a little homage to my life as an athlete.

And at Google, as many of you know, about half of the new products in a typical year are birthed during that 20 Percent Time things like Gmail, Orkut, Google News.

After all, if all of us ate half as much meat, it would be like half of us were vegetarians.

Once you start cutting things in half, you kind of get carried away, so you see we cut the jars in half as well as the pan.

Likewise, closer to home, as many as half of our discoveries of new medicines have originated from accidents. For example, isoniazid was initially tested as a tuberculosis drug iproniazid, one of its derivatives, later proved to be effective in the treatment of depression.

As a matter of fact, this is something that about half of you, more than half of you will not be familiar with.

Given that as many as half of China s 1.3 billion people remain mired in abject poverty, it is in China s interest to ensure that these economic relationships continue to flourish. In the past, China has recognized the vital need for good neighborly relations.

As a result, more than half of the network was considerably dilapidated.

Many people have migrated to Western European countries from North Africa and Turkey during the last half century, not because of Western generosity, but because they were required for jobs that natives no longer wanted. They were treated as temporary workers, however, not as immigrants.

Sanitation is terrible, and our old vaccine, you remember, worked half as well as it should have.

As the EU reaches its 50th birthday, many Europeans are entering middle age with it. They are also becoming aware of the potential of demographic change to make Europe s next half century very different from the previous one.

The calving face is four and a half miles across, and in this shot, as we pull back, you're only seeing about a mile and a half.

They were as good as the babies in Taiwan who'd been listening for 10 and a half months.

They are also less likely to be self employed and half as likely as men to be employers.

Throughout the first half of 2015, many Central Command press releases, statements and congressional testimonies were significantly more positive than actual events, the report said.

Over time I've collected about a half dozen methods that do work of course there are many more that do work and that are effective.

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)

As with every other element of a growth strategy, mutually reinforcing efforts are the only way to achieve success. Half a loaf may be better than none, but half the ingredients do not translate into half of the hoped for results.

Hospitals use two and a half times the amount of energy as office buildings.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Peacebuilding is a multidisciplinary task involving many States and institutional actors, as well as many instruments.

Take as many cookies as you want.

Take as many peaches as you like.

Not as many votes.

Hybrid means it's something that's half living and half machine.

Half of her body was stricken, the other half not.

Seeing the team's score fell behind, Messi appeared as a substitute in the second half.

As of 2006, half a million US dollars will be provided yearly for this purpose.

But the similarities are many and sobering. Three and a half years after the dawn of the Arab Spring, there is a real possibility that we are witnessing the early phase of a prolonged, costly, and deadly struggle as bad as things are, they could well become worse.

Many forest dependent people belong to the other half those who will remain in poverty and face hunger even if the Millennium Development Goals targets are met.

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

Opinion polls indicate that one third of Americans believe that China will soon dominate the world, while nearly half view China s emergence as a threat to world peace. In turn, many Chinese fear that the United States will not accept their peaceful rise.

As many as 165 million people would die.

As many as a thousand people were there.