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Super Typhoon Haiyan went over areas of the Pacific five and a half degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal before it slammed into Tacloban, as the most destructive storm ever to make landfall.
When you measure it by assets at risk, number one is Miami: three and a half trillion dollars at risk.
A lot of countries are getting more than half on an average basis.
On average, we'd expect to only need to compare each book to half of the books that came before it.
All in all, this method known as QuickSort could sort the books in under three and a half hours.
There's just one problem: the plane can only hold 180 kiloliters of fuel, only enough for exactly half the journey.
And then the imam made an announcement, thanking and welcoming our guests, because half the congregation were Christians, Jews, Buddhists, atheists, people of faith and no faith, who had come not to attack us, but to stand in solidarity with us.
But what if for 60 cents a mile we could get half a million more people carpooling in Los Angeles?
Half an hour after you swallow the pill, some of the dose has already made it into the circulatory blood stream.
Then the body starts efficiently eliminating ibuprofen, with the blood dose decreasing by half every two hours on average.
In the three months this project has been public, it's been downloaded over half a million times.
There was pride in a room where net worth and assets under management surpassed half a trillion dollars.
And if we were to harness even half our hydropower potential, and that's exactly what we are working at, the clean, green energy that we export would offset something like 50 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.
Today, more than half our country is protected, as national parks, nature reserves and wildlife sanctuaries.
Now to be fair, three and a half million years ago, it was on average 22 degrees Celsius warmer than it is now.
And the Monkey said, "Totally agree, but let's just open Google Earth and zoom in to the bottom of India, like 200 feet above the ground, and scroll up for two and a half hours til we get to the top of the country, so we can get a better feel for India."
Half the students completed both problem types with nothing at stake, while the others completed them when calm and under pressure.
Less than half a century ago, two courageous men landed on the moon, using computers that were less powerful than the phones in your pockets.
It was more like, "Look, I've been working on this for half a year, I'd love to have comments."
10,000, two and a half million, 15 years.
It's just been industrial, which means those who were producing had to have a way of raising money to pay those two and a half million dollars, and later, more for the telegraph, and the radio transmitter, and the television, and eventually the mainframe.
Four and a half million users around the world, contributing their leftover computer cycles, whenever their computer isn't working, by running a screen saver, and together sharing their resources to create a massive supercomputer that NASA harnesses to analyze the data coming from radio telescopes.
For my organization, for the Brady Campaign, that dream is reflected in the bold goal to cut the number of gun deaths in the US in half by 2025.
There are 200 million clinical cases of falciparum malaria in Africa every year, resulting in half a million deaths.
FO: We would save half a million lives every year.
In fact, half the surface of Earth has been unnaturally engineered so that what lives and what dies there is what we want, which is the reason why you don't have grizzly bears walking through downtown Manhattan.
It's a screenwriter who looks at a movie script that can't get the green light for more than half a century.
Any number of them, such as Sao Paulo or Istanbul or Moscow, has a GDP approaching or exceeding one third of one half of their entire national GDP.
It's far less than half the size of the Earth, and yet despite the fact that it's smaller, the surface area of Mars that you can stand on is equivalent to the surface area of the Earth that you can stand on, because the Earth is mostly covered by water.
That night with Sonny Boy and his family changed my life forever, because when it came time to go to sleep, we simply laid down on this concrete slab the size of half my bedroom with myself, Sonny Boy, and the rest of his family, seven of us in this long line, with the smell of rubbish all around us and cockroaches crawling all around.
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