At this time of year, near the start of the six-month dry season, reservoirs should be more than half full. |
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It certainly left me standing on the shores of the Atlantic more than half the time. |
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Thus their numbers almost quadrupled during a period when the country's population grew by little more than half. |
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Trucks represent only a quarter of the vehicles passing through the toll plaza, but will contribute more than half of the toll revenue. |
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But social accord will not exist if, as a result of reform, people's spending increases by more than half while their wages go up only a quarter. |
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Nearly more than half the town's children vanished, including every one of the accusers. |
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One could not help noticing that more than half the vehicles were passing through the town on their way to the coast. |
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This is the picture today after more than half a century since Independence. |
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Over more than half a century his talent and intensity have proven big enough to fill any role. |
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The United States has been trying to eliminate its slums for more than half a century. |
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Without exaggeration, more than half the audience were on their feet cheering. |
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It was a raging success, with visits to the Dalaro website and the fictional Soto's page totalling more than half a million hits. |
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The Government has shown willing by putting up more than half the cost of the Malton and Norton scheme. |
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For more than half a century Mexican jumping beans have been sold in the United States. |
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It is the occasion for a rambunctious Carnival celebration that draws more than half a million people each year to Santo Domingo. |
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Of this, more than half is unsolicited junk mail otherwise known as spam, and it comes at a cost. |
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We had been talking and laughing a great deal for more than half an hour when suddenly the lady burst into tears. |
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After all, more than half of American evangelicals are either Baptists or non-denominational. |
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So today's prices are, in real terms, at little more than half their highest levels. |
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That proposition won by a wide margin overall and garnered more than half the female vote. |
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As a result, more than half of the Cambodian Communists and 4 of the 10 people who led the Khmers to victory in 1975, were also destroyed. |
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The firm, which provides mobile airtime services to more than half a million mobile phone users, currently employs more than 500 staff. |
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With grayish brown fur and a nearly naked tail, the animals rarely grow to more than half a foot long. |
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This affects, directly or indirectly, more than half the working population of this country. |
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By 1776 Glasgow merchants imported more than half of Britain's tobacco and had lucrative re-export markets in Europe. |
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The total number of Allied troops involved in the landings was 65,000, a little more than half the strength of the French forces in North Africa. |
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The replaceable lenses are cutting demand for lens solution, which accounts for more than half of the company's revenue. |
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Of those, more than half said they work at evenings during the school week and almost all were below the legal age of 14 for paid employment. |
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Today, their number is estimated to be anywhere from 200,000 to more than half a million. |
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Then the entire world was rocked by a massive earthquake, which killed more than half the population. |
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From the clipped liquid sounds it spoke I'd guess it had gotten little more than half the sounds I'd spoken. |
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There are crowds, not huge enough to make the place look more than half full, but crammed into temporary arcades of shops. |
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A lite product contains no more than half the fat, half the sodium or one-third the calories of the original. |
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The administration is using its power and authority to accomplish the biggest rollback in employee rights in more than half a century. |
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The 28-year-old lost more than half his ear in the rumpus which spilled onto the pavement outside Zinc in Lucy Road. |
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He turned his love of surfing into a company worth more than half a billion dollars. |
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I have personally witnessed such a case where the size of the gift was reduced by more than half because of several high restaurant tabs. |
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I'd hesitate to spend a third of my take-home pay on mortgage repayments, let alone more than half! |
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Meanwhile angry shopkeepers in Blackfen Road say takings are down by more than half. |
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Avar is a written language of Dagestan, which has somewhat more than half a million speakers. |
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More than 130 yachtsmen were saved in a dramatic combined rescue operation costing more than half a million pounds. |
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The unnecessarily large teasers and the masthead monopolise more than half of the visible area. |
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In terms of finance it brings in more than half a million pounds extra revenue over one weekend. |
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When the work was more than half finished the homeowners terminated the contract. |
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By the end of that century more than half of the territory of the Manchu empire consisted of lands whose native populations were not Chinese. |
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By age 50, he claims, more than half the male population is bald or balding. |
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The directors of a bust Hampshire dealership have been charged with supplying counterfeit software to more than half of the UK's police forces. |
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Last year, more than half the people who completed the course managed to stop smoking. |
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Justice officials insist that more than half of the detained material witnesses have ended up in criminal prosecutions. |
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But barium has an atomic number of 56, barely more than half that of uranium. |
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Did you know that more than half of Britain's pensioners are currently entitled to means-tested benefits? |
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It's hardly surprising that more than half the country's pensioners are entitled to means-tested benefits. |
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Municipalities could condemn an entire area if more than half of the properties within it are eligible for seizure. |
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We have recovered more than half a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser from a self-storage facility in Boston Road, Hanwell, West London. |
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Into the 1860s at least, because of the seasonality of the tourist trade, most boats were tied up, out of service, for more than half the year. |
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An environmentally aware school which has completely banned clingfilm, tinfoil and crisps has already cut its daily waste by more than half. |
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We were warned beforehand that more than half of the time would be spent on the road. |
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To set the clicker in the correct position, no more than half the length of the arrow point must be left under the clicker at full draw. |
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The irrefutable evidence of unprecedented horrors speaks for itself after more than half a century. |
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Even more important, more than half of Millennial men are core wine drinkers. |
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Last year more than half a million homes were left empty for at least a month at a time. |
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Today, it is estimated that more than half the people of the world eat a variety of flying, crawling, and biting bugs. |
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One of the Royal Navy's hi-tech minehunters has spent more than half of the last year far from home, in the Baltic. |
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Some measure little more than half a mile across, and the newest discovery, a Neptunian moon, is almost 3 billion miles from Earth. |
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The AP reported how doctors in training misdiagnosed diseases caused by bioterrorism more than half the time on multiple-choice tests. |
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Right now, more than half a billion of the world's children are living on less than 55p a day. |
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The basic object of the game is to take more than half of these card points in tricks. |
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The other three runners-up all had at least one star player sidelined for more than half the season. |
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They may even encourage more than half of the electorate to turn out and vote four years from now. |
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Famine had mutated into an invincible monstrosity that was ravaging more than half of Africa's children. |
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Cologne went two goals down and had Moses Sichone sent off for foul play after little more than half an hour. |
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With more than half of all stock options granted in the '90s underwater, you can bet the boss is finding other ways to get paid. |
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Until last week he was out on parole, having served more than half of a seven-year sentence for being a nasty piece of work. |
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Many teachers are nearing retirement with more than half being age 40 or older. |
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The chain of parenthood just got tighter around my neck as now I actually have to pay attention more than half of the time. |
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The film reviews are fascinating snapshots across more than half a century, and Hollywood itself gets it in the neck regularly. |
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Since then the sewage of more than half a million inhabitants has flowed untreated into the river. |
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His striped tail was more than half the size of his body and his build seemed kind of stocky. |
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Today, more than half specifically ask whether his monitoring includes the blogosphere. |
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Helicobacter pylori, a spiral bacterium of the stomach, infects more than half of the world's population. |
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Every year, more than half the cod and haddock in the North Sea were being caught. |
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It is the major strategic route from Harrogate to Leeds and needs more than half measures to resolve the problems that recur here so often. |
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I was more than half asleep when I gave a small stretch and nuzzled deeper into Will's embrace. |
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Nearly two thirds of men and more than half of women in England are now either overweight or obese. |
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At the present time, more than half the women and two thirds of men are either obese or overweight. |
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Spike, who was sitting beside him, was looking down too, nursing a huge beer stein that was more than half empty. |
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Walleye pollock, more than half of all Bering bottom fish, are harvested in the world's largest single species fishery. |
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Taking a pair of carthorses to Grafton to be re-shod took more than half a day. |
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Our statistics also show that more than half of those heritage seeds were introduced by only 21 companies, so these gains are extremely fragile. |
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Despite working two or more jobs, many families still must pay out more than half their income for housing, or live in substandard conditions. |
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According to veterinarians surveyed, more than half of the nation's cats and dogs are overfed, which can lead to health problems. |
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I assure you more than half of the department's own social workers work overtime every week. |
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The world's largest maker of ceramic packaging used to protect computer chips gets more than half of its sales from abroad. |
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Among the chief concerns is the bank's investment portfolio, which now makes up more than half of its assets. |
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For more than half a century, the swami has tirelessly organized important religious seminars. |
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After all, more than half the species on Earth are parasites, and most organisms are host to a number of them. |
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Opinion polls show more than half of Britons are opposed to ditching the pound although an increasing number feel the switch is inevitable. |
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Union Terrace car park will lose more than half its existing spaces so a new coach park and toilet facilities can be built. |
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Spring brings more than half a million blooming bulbs, including daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips. |
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The southeast face of the South Tower is more than half a mile wide and 3,000 feet high, and exposed to the nastiest Patagonian winds. |
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A newly paved road, financed by remittances, leads to a virtual ghost town where more than half the homes are closed up. |
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Supposedly, there was to be a second encore, but more than half of the bar had already made way to the coat check, so they scratched that idea. |
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The union has cut its wage demand by more than half, seeking a 2.5 percent yearly increase. |
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More than 300 so-called fabless chipmakers in the US also source more than half of their silicon wafers from Taiwanese semiconductor foundries. |
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Although there were few cases in which coders chose opposite impacts, only slightly more than half of all codings matched. |
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Most patients with factitious disorders are women with stable social networks, and more than half of these work in medically related occupations. |
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A woman recently won compensation of 15,000 yuan after losing more than half her hair after it was permed at a local beauty salon. |
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Last month more than half of the passengers passing through Prestwick were inbound travellers. |
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Karthan looked ahead, but a small incline in the road prevented him from seeing more than half a mile ahead. |
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If you don't pay off your debt in full you incur interest on all you spent, even if you pay off more than half of it. |
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Both have similar favourable ratings, with slightly more than half of voters viewing each favourably. |
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A mass meeting last week voted unanimously to continue with the action and more than half the workforce took part in a mass picket. |
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Nevertheless, the favourite is still good old-fashioned cheese and pickle with more than half of the people asked choosing this filling. |
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For example, multiple addictions have been found among more than half of adolescents who have a compulsive behaviour problem. |
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The congresswoman has already spent more than half of it in her reelection bid. |
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, in addition to having insurance premiums to pay, more than half of the insured pay a deductible. |
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It found that more than half of garages were delivering low standards of service to consumers. |
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He also called on rich countries to pledge that more than half of the new aid promised at the Monterrey Conference in March will go to Africa. |
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Leaves were scored as dead when they were flaccid or dried over more than half their surface. |
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Also there are areas at higher elevation on the rim of polar craters that see the Sun more than half of the time. |
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For more than half a century, Minnesota's iron ranges supplied the iron ore that fed the nation's steel mills. |
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The survey, by Penguin Books, found that more than half the men polled believed that flattering a woman would be enough to impress her. |
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You know, more than half the people who are normally on the floor of the stock exchange were there. |
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For more than half a century, the land that the Bozemen Trail would cross was made busy by Crows and white trappers and traders, not by Lakotas. |
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Sedge meadow was distinguished from wet prairie by having more than half its dominants as sedge family species. |
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The survey also reveals that more than half of those who have made prearrangements have also prepaid for some portion of their funeral. |
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At 34, she is a rising star in the first generation of private property developers in more than half a century. |
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Last year, it stamped out 7.3 billion pennies, more than half of its total coin production. |
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He said more than half the new application forms filled in at the start of the year were not completed properly and had to be returned. |
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Stuart Kinner analyzes psychopaths, a mere one percent of the population who account for more than half of serious crimes. |
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In the fifteen-year period from 1989 to 2004, the number of goliath frogs dropped by more than half. |
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We waited for more than half an hour to be seated despite having made a reservation far in advance. |
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Exotic grapefruit trees, pepper plants and Australian pines have invaded Pelican Island, and erosion has scoured away more than half the refuge. |
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Pupils have had the chance to travel back in time more than half a century, thanks to an exciting discovery at their school. |
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Your man Henry had more than half an eye on his future employment when he sat down with the selectors. |
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Billy Moyer grabbed the lead at the drop of the green flag and held the point position for more than half the race. |
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Cut to 3 inches often enough so no more than half the growth is removed at each mowing. |
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It was also disturbing to read in the explanatory note that more than half of all liable persons are in arrears. |
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It would take me more than half a day just to fly there, at supersonic speeds. |
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All in all, more than half of our contractors found that they had basically outgrown their trailer capacity before they'd planned to, putting a crimp in operations. |
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Businesses who dabbled in e-commerce during the boom are now reaping the rewards with more than half now making a 20 per cent return on their initial investment. |
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More than 50 crops were grown by the 54 farms included in the sample, although more than half of the acreage was in hard red spring wheat, soybeans, hay, corn, and sunflowers. |
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Much of the island is a mantle of ice more than half a mile thick. |
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He had always been nervous during swimming lessons at our local pool, but the wave pool had a gentle slope and was shallow for more than half its length. |
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Main Street America, an insurance company, will lease 60,000 square feet of space, or more than half of the 113,000 square feet that will be rentable. |
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The son of a Yorkshire dialectologist and university French teacher, Halliday's contribution to the field of linguistics spans more than half a century. |
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The population of Fulton County as a whole is 977,000, meaning that more than half the people live outside Atlanta proper. |
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On abdominal examination, more than half the fetal head is above the symphysis pubis and the occiput is palpable at a higher level than the sinciput. |
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Large depositors account for a tiny fraction of all Cypriot bank accounts, but more than half of all Cypriot bank deposits. |
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What new devilish inventions are being worked on in that vast network that this nation has assiduously devoted to weapons of mass destruction for more than half a century? |
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We have got more than half the deployable strength of the U.S. Army there. |
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The amount farmed to cotton varies with water availability, but never more than half the area, and it's done in a rotation with durum wheat and malting barley. |
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Malnutrition is so rampant that more than half the country's children are stunted in growth. |
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Mike was a soldier who was always more than half in the bag. |
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For more than half a century now, Wallace's work in the fields of cultural anthropology and American history has been influential for many scholars. |
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When only Democrats are polled, more than half report they feel that way. |
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And, sorry about this kiddiewinks, all but one of these events were more than half a century ago, when your mums and dads weren't even thought of, never mind you. |
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It requires that the viewer exhibit a fair amount of willing suspension of disbelief, but buying into the essential premise is more than half the battle. |
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With the exception of history and art history, graduate students and contingent faculty teach more than half of the courses offered in the disciplines studied. |
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On the contrary, it appears a bit better than even money that any random newborn will live to age 80, because, according to the tables, a bit more than half do so. |
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Two years later, more than half the cash remains in the fund's coffers. |
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They're in need of an autumn tidy, that's for sure, but it's a job that'll keep Graham busy for no more than half a day, possibly as much as a full day. |
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Just as importantly, these two major powers appear to be hell-bent on usurping an authority which has stood us in good stead for more than half a century. |
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A man was caught on spy camera dumping more than half a tonne of dog mess. |
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Stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River, the West contained more than half of the Confederacy's land and its breadbasket. |
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Mullen presented 238 world-wide records of acarine parasites of mosquitoes but more than half of the observations concerned unidentified or doubtfully identified mites. |
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By the time they are done, the Hollands will have covered 1,529 miles, more than half the width of the continental United States. |
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Doctors believe more than half of asthma patients have allergic constitutions of various levels, which means they are very allergic to some materials. |
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Tens of thousands of Turkmen tribesmen swarmed across Asia Minor, and within a decade the empire had lost most of its grain and more than half its manpower. |
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No passenger liner can claim to have been so big, so long, tall and wide, and together with a price tag of more than half a billion pounds, so expensive. |
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He is undoubtedly his own person and he vigorously pursues his own distinctive campaigns with flair and more than half an eye for the media coverage. |
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Only 2 percent of all taxpayers possess enough wealth to pay an estate tax, and more than half the tax is paid by a minuscule 4,000 families a year. |
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As if aware that their vote made little difference, more than half of the 3 million enfranchised Hong Kong people stayed away from polling stations. |
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The operator of a Melbourne tollway is playing down claims that the credit card details of more than half a million customers have been compromised in an internet scam. |
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Some believed officers crossed that line with the parole sweeps conducted last month, which resulted in 192 arrests, more than half of ex-cons violating their parole. |
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Until the late 1960s, more than half of the U.S. states had laws on the books prohibiting women from tending bar. |
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With votes in from more than half the Swiss cantons by mid-afternoon, the proposal had been formally rejected though the majority was not yet known. |
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The average return on capital invested in land was only about 5 per cent, or little more than half of the return available in commerce or in industry. |
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The women had an added obstacle as one of the first athletes fell on the hill, causing a domino effect which saw more than half the field lying in the snow. |
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Women have made great strides, he argued, for instance now comprising more than half of the students at medical and law schools. |
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By taking more than half of the area out of the Northern Territory, the main job-generating industries of the Territory, mining and pastoralism, have been seriously retarded. |
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The Munich-based label has made a name for itself with its discs of live recordings, mostly operatic, taken from more than half a century of Salzburg festivals. |
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The university receives more than half its aggregate income from government sources. |
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Since he was a child Matthew dreamed of making it big, of being a player in a country where more than half of the national wealth is controlled by a handful of families. |
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Since more than half of the children admitted to the school reside outside the city, it plans to build a dormitory to enable them to stay along with one of their parents. |
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Fieri would not be cowed by a review that more than half of all Today show viewers deemed too harsh. |
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However, he neglects to mention that at 316 Thames Valley and Essex sites, which represented more than half of the trial, the number of injury accidents actually increased! |
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Half-load programmes on dishwashers and washing machines use more than half the water and energy of a full load so save up your washing and do a full load. |
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In the second study, more than half of 216 patients treated with alteplase in London, Ont. |
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S friends for more than half a century, playing long-term partners on screen isn't much of a stretch for Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Ian McKellen. |
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It mainly affects women over 40, after years of clopping around on stiletto heels, and more than half the sufferers require surgery. |
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Cardiff, while mourning a King, welcomed a new monarch, the first Queen Regnant since Victoria died more than half a century earlier. |
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A DIESEL railcar, more than half a century old, is to be the star of the show at the Llangollen Railway Railcar Gala. |
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Feedlots are responsible for 43 percent of the world's beef, and more than half of the world's pork and poultry are raised in factory farms. |
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Among those taking part were more than half a dozen members of the Nuneaton Juggling Club who turned up on unicycles of all sizes. |
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Of the 80 cot deaths analysed, more than half occurred while co-sleeping compared to one-fifth co-sleeping rate among both control groups. |
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He believes that 2 or 3 years from now more than half of the large cases will be settled through the Fast Track Settlement process. |
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And he went set out again little more than half an hour later he birdied the long second to make it a threeway tie at the top. |
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Net farm incomes fell by more than half to pounds 123 a hectacre, meaning that incomes have fallen by pounds 240 a hectacre in two years. |
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For more than half a century, the electrocardiogram has been a routine screening tool in life underwriting. |
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After its bad experience in 1997-98, Chubb implemented measures that cut its transportation loss experience by more than half, Soja said. |
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It means that a tablespoon of the spread has no more than half a gram of trans. |
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With more than half a squad calling off, Strachan hailed the stand-ins who stood up to the big guns. |
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London has one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the world. It absorbs more than half of all immigrants to Britain. |
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These guessings of ours, for they are more than half guessings, may throw a glimmer of light on the mystery of doll selection. |
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Slightly more than half, mainly in the west, is designated as the Isle of Wight Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
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During this entire campaign he never managed to field more than 70,000 men against more than half a million coalition soldiers. |
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These three principles have guided the development of the NHS over more than half a century and remain. |
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It is some 600,000 acres in area, more than half of which is vital flatwoods vegetation, which supports many rare plant and animal species. |
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Despite the traditional English beer being ale, more than half of the current English market is now lager in the Pilsener and Export styles. |
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After the destruction of Plymouth and disruption of the economy, more than half of the population left the island, which also lacked housing. |
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The political party which secures more than half the seats in the Lok Sabha forms the Government of India. |
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By 1860 the population had swelled to over 80,000, more than half being Chinese. |
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This was also the first time more than half a million scheduled passengers used the airport. |
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In October, members of the Academy vote and the candidate who receives more than half of the votes is named the Nobel laureate in Literature. |
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The world's most populous island, Java, contains more than half of the country's population. |
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Ceredigion is considered to be a centre of Welsh culture and more than half the population speaks Welsh. |
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Of 5,981 agricultural holdings, more than half were between 5 and 50 acres. |
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As a result, it is estimated that more than half of insects on the Graciosa island have disappeared or will become extinct. |
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After more than half a century of almost constant warfare, the Swedish economy had deteriorated. |
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The state, law, and increasingly education used French, yet more than half the Belgian population were speaking a variety of Dutch. |
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Since beer often costs little more than half the English shop price, at worst, the savings defray the cost of a day out. |
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In some African states, more than half the population is under 25 years of age. |
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In just two years under Columbus's governorship more than half of the 250,000 Arawaks in Haiti were dead. |
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Cornwall Council provides a wide range of services to more than half a million Cornish residents. |
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From 1859 to 1917, more than half a million people migrated to the Russian Far East. |
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A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. |
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These counties, on their historical boundaries, cover a little more than half the area of England. |
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In 2001, the spies also donned the hairshirt and more than half their budget was unspent. |
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As of 2015 Likewise, more than half of preschool children in Moldova benefit from Romania funded program to renovate and equip kindergartens. |
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Slightly more than half of the residents of Cologne are members of a religion. |
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A necking duel can last more than half an hour, depending on how well matched the combatants are. |
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On 5 November 1982, Pope John Paul II arrived in Seville to officiate at a Mass before more than half a million people at the fairgrounds. |
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There are fewer than 65 native fish species in the lake basin, but more than half of these are endemic. |
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Hand harvesting accounts for more than half of production, and is dominant in the developing world. |
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It was expanded in 1987, but it still covered no more than half the actual vocabulary of Webster's Third. |
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The distribution areas of the paper birch, the trembling aspen and the mountain ash cover more than half of Quebec territory. |
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Suppose an investor holding more than half of a corporation's stock votes on changes the other stockholders find detrimental. |
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In the UK the Electoral Reform Society estimates that more than half the seats can be considered as safe. |
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In 1349, the Black Death pandemic killed more than half the population of Northampton. |
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Sixties era radical Abbie Hoffman was born in Worcester in 1936 and spent more than half of his life there. |
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The Duchy includes over 570 square kilometres of land, more than half of which lies in Devon. |
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But the car that outscored them all was the outrageous, wheelstanding Little Red Wagon pickup, which went for more than half a million dollars. |
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Those who spent more than half their free time playing electronic games were not as well-adjusted. |
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The only downside is that more than half the coho caught have had intact adipose fins, meaning they had to be released. |
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Slightly more than half of that group reported symptoms of alcohol abuse, and the rest had experienced alcohol dependence. |
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The CPSC reported that more than half of the injuries in this group occurred in the head or neck. |
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Sustaining an otherwise cerulean sky, oily black smoke billows a mile high from more than half a dozen fires south of Lake Okeechobee. |
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The majority of crack cocaine offenders were black, while more than half of powder cocaine offenders were Hispanic and about a third were black. |
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Cranog Davies was a well-known figure in his local community of Pontypridd, after serving its residents for more than half a decade. |
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Croze, 67, is a muralist, and fervent admirer of Antonio Gaudi, who has spent more than half her life in Africa. |
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However, more than half of people who have driven home after flying long haul admit to feeling tired. |
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With the countdown running to the 25th, more than half of the dawdlers think there's still plenty of time. |
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But there was no mention of fuel taxes, which account for more than half of every euro spent at the gas pump. |
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When a peacock fans out the iridescent splendor of his train, more than half the time the peahen he's displaying for isn't even looking at him. |
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That gap is due to the fact that in industry more than half of the computers are workstations networked off a minicomputer or a mainframe. |
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New research found youngsters suffering injuries to their arms, with more than half needing skin grafts following an accident. |
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Owner Seth Silver likes the ambience of Riverfront Park and offers monkey bread and more than half a dozen varieties of trail mix. |
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Like other Katrina rescues, more than half of the dogs and cats were believed to have contracted heartworm and other parasites. |
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They may have owned more than half of the land in Lombard Italy. |
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He aided the Royal Academy of Arts with large grants from his private funds, and may have donated more than half of his personal income to charity. |
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Male red deer retain their antlers for more than half the year, and are less gregarious and less likely to group with other males when they have antlers. |
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The news means that more than half of the county's schools have now made the grade, which recognises excellence and commitment to art, music, dance and drama. |
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On 30 May, Churchill received word that all British divisions were now behind the defensive lines, along with more than half of the French First Army. |
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Ovalbumin constitutes more than half of the protein in the white of a laid egg, and expression of the ovalbumin gene is restricted to the tubular gland cells of the oviduct. |
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Maoists are active in more than half of Odisha's 30 districts. |
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The various fish groups account for more than half of vertebrate species. |
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The shipbuilding industry on the River Clyde increased greatly from the 1840s and by 1870 the Clyde was producing more than half of Britain's tonnage of shipping. |
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In the last 30 years the populations of common birds such as the skylark, song thrush, grey partridge and tree sparrow have declined by more than half. |
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The greatest circumference of body is little more than half its length. |
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As a result, the Scottish Highlands continues to have the most unequal distributions of land in Europe, with more than half of Scotland owned by fewer than 500 people. |
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Only at Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union and Muroc Joint Unified did more than half the students score at proficient or advanced levels in both English-language arts and math. |
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Formerly the PM had to have more than half the members of Cabinet be members of the Church of Norway, meaning at least ten out of the 19 ministries. |
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Women in both groups were asked to keep a menstrual diary, and more than half menstruated within two days of the expected date of their next period. |
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In a speech on 9 June 2005, Bush said that the USA PATRIOT Act had been used to bring charges against more than 400 suspects, more than half of whom had been convicted. |
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When I de-duped my MP3 database, it shrank by more than half! |
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Cardiff has an ambitious target of getting all peatlands in Wales into restoration management by 2020, as more than half of the country's peatlands remain in poor condition. |
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The 1851 census reported that more than half the inhabitants of Toronto were Irish, and, in 1847 alone, 38,000 famine Irish flooded a city with fewer than 20,000 citizens. |
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Slightly more than 40 percent of public postsecondary schools and slightly more than half of for-profit colleges offer an associate's degree as their highest degree. |
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Generic versions of central nervous system drugs, such as antidepressants and anticonvulsants, plus cardiovascular drugs account for more than half of the annual savings. |
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Sherwood said the buyer would make more than half the operation's 63 staff redundant, although the Colwick plant would continue to serve local warp knitting producers. |
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In 1900, blacks made up more than half of the state's population. |
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It was also the first to include full case annotations that included summaries of the decisions, which more than half of those of other states had already published. |
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The bombing of Tokyo in 1944 and 1945 is estimated to have killed between 75,000 and 200,000 civilians and left more than half of the city destroyed. |
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In Western states, government owns more than half the land mass. |
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You can turn your brights on and that helps quite a bit, but you can not leave them on. So you end up driving beyond your headlights more than half the time. |
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It found that more than half of motorists have got angry behind the wheel as a result of back-seat drivers, while 40 per cent reported being made anxious. |
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Antithyroid drugs, which have been in use for more than half a century, remain cornerstones in the management of hyperthyroidism, especially for patients with Graves' disease. |
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Mackerel makes up more than half of the catch in Shetland by weight and value, and there are significant landings of haddock, cod, herring, whiting, monkfish and shellfish. |
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The official total of Manchus fell by more than half during this period, as they refused to admit to their ethnicity when asked by government officials or other outsiders. |
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Luxembourg also lost more than half of its territory to Belgium. |
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