School begins at half past eight.

School begins at half past eight.

Last night my daughter didn't come home until half past one.

The past half a century of work in the service of justice

Half past seven, we're getting up and that's what we're going to do.

I think that the chance of life having arisen on Mars, sometime in its past, is maybe one in four to maybe even half and half.

Well over half (92) of the 160 known claims were filed within the past three years.

Over the past decade and half, some developing countries have emerged as significant sources of FDI.

Over the past three years, 4.3 million jobs have been created, a half of which is for women.

In the past two and a half, we've been very hard at work on redefining the way maps work online.

Also notable are the high economic growth rates in Afghanistan's urban centres over the past three and a half years.

The town of Sderot has been plagued by numerous Qassam rocket attacks initiated by Palestinian terrorists over the past four and a half years.

They reiterated that the close partnership between Afghanistan and the international community which has characterized the past three and a half years should continue.

Security, effective institutions and development will require time and concerted efforts, to build upon the political achievements of the past three and a half years.

A 12 year old boy runs past sugar cane fields on a half mile journey to the nearest television set in order to watch the game

We've only been around for the past 200,000 years as a species, yet we've reached a population of more than six and a half billion people.

I'm here today, as June said, to talk about a project that my twin sister and I have been doing for the past three and half years.

Over the past three and a half years, significant economic growth has taken place in the urban centres and food security has improved, with record crop yields.

The total number of abortions and legally induced abortions per 1000 women in fertile age has decreased by more than a half in the past 10 years.

Over the past decade and a half, there had been a surge in such operations and indeed a change of concept, in that operations had become multidimensional.

They have infused societies with kindness, and we have really felt that as woman after woman has stood on this stage in the past day and a half.

We actually drilled holes into the ice, way deep down below the thawing level, and had some cameras out there for the past month and a half or so.

In the past, the counter cyclical behavior of large private institutions stabilized market expectations during panics. The house of Rothschild made the first half of the nineteenth century stable.

Thus, given the situation facing young Nicaraguans, the Government of Nicaragua has over the past three and half years developed a youth action programme aimed at addressing those problems.

If this is Blair s calculation, he is mistaken. Moreover, it is the kind of mistake that the British have been making in relations with Europe for the past half century.

Egypt s democratic transition can still succeed. But progress toward inclusive, durable institutions will require Egyptians to take heed of the main mistakes of the past two and a half years.

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.

While trade and its share in national income have grown rapidly in most developed and developing countries over the past half century, remarkably, the average African experience does not follow this pattern.

The promise of replicating past returns cannot be the reason, given the inadequacy of those returns. In fact, filtering out stocks in accordance with payouts would have lowered the draw downs on investment in the financial sector by well over half over the past 20 years, with no loss in returns.

NEW DELHI The phrase Silk Road evokes a romantic image half history, half myth of tented camel caravans winding their way across the trackless deserts and mountains of Central Asia. But the Silk Road is not just part of a fabled past it is an important feature of China s current foreign policy.

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)

But, whereas Europeans, with crime rates well below American rates for the past half century, could long afford to be relatively soft on most crimes, they have seen their crime rates increase sharply during the past twenty years. By contrast, American rates have fallen, in part because of greater use of punishment.

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

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

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

So I'm going to concentrate on two of the most exciting stories that have emerged out of this major exploratory expedition that we are conducting around Saturn, and have been for the past two and a half years.

I'm going to distinguish between what I call front half and back half.

You can focus on past positive, or past negative.

For the past 18 months or so, the UK has had Europe s fastest growing economy, and at times has even outpaced the United States. The unemployment rate, now 5.6 , has fallen to less than half that of the eurozone.

The great thing is, when you cut something in half, you have another half.

More than half.

Iraq s Half Step

In the past 15 years, small arms have been used in more than 90 per cent of civil conflicts, and they are responsible for most weapons related deaths that take place throughout the world more than half a million every year.

Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.

Europe has had more than 250 wars since the beginning of the Renaissance in the mid fifteenth century. So, it is not alarmist to worry aloud about preserving the sense of community that Europe has enjoyed for the past half century.