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We got out and walked, and sure enough, about half a mile, we came over the crest of this hill, and there was a huge gathering of Bedouin with their camels.
(Most animals would if they lost half that much.)
But half of those were Indian.
And I think if every school district allocated a half to one percent, we could start to really fix this program.
30 percent of schizophrenic people are left-handed, and schizophrenia has a very funny genetics, which means 60 percent of the people are genetically left-handed, but only half of it showed.
And there's Furby on the half shell.
And Hasbro made about, you know, a billion and a half dollars.
Odds are I know somebody who's made a widget, and the minute you tell me that, I discount half of what you're saying from then on.
However, the brain is scarcely half the size of a modern human one.
Well, the night is young, but the book has been out for half a year, and nothing terrible has happened.
Now, on the other hand, in the second half of the 20th century, the arts are frequently said to be in decline.
Half of them immediately started laughing, and the other half started yelling at Abby and shouting things like, "Oh, my God, you can't say that, that's racist!"
There's a class of nine- and ten-year-olds, and half of them are in hysterics because they think Abby has said something wildly funny, and the other half are yelling at her for saying something offensive.
That's probably something on the order of roughly half the jobs in the economy.
Yet, we've made similar progress in half that time with DNA sequencers, and as long as we're around, DNA will never be obsolete.
We will munch our way through our remaining carbon budget for one and a half degrees in a few short years, and the two degree budget in about two decades.
About half the chemical energy is converted into electricity, and the remainder into heat, which is used to break down limestone into lime and carbon dioxide.
So in Morocco, for example, they finished third in the political race but they were only allowed to contest half the seats.
The problem is that even though the fuses look uniform, they don’t burn evenly, so if you cut one in half, for example, one side might burn longer than the other.
The other half don't talk about it because they fear they won’t be believed.
And if we do nothing, if nothing changes, by 2030, just 13 years from now, half of the world's children and youth, half of 1.6 billion children and youth, will be either out of school or failing to learn.
Today we know: half of the world's children by 2030 will be failing to learn.
Only half of the developing countries have systematic learning assessment at primary school, and even less so at lower secondary school.
It's four and a half times the size of Germany, and it's fully covered in jungle and rivers.
In Chile, for every doctor, you have four and a half people, four and a half staff supporting them, and Chile is on the low end of the spectrum here, because in developing countries, on average, every doctor has 10 people supporting them.
A teacher in Chile, however, has less than half a person, 0.3 persons, supporting them.
So Facebook's market capitalization is approaching half a trillion dollars.
Either Facebook is a giant con of half a trillion dollars and ads don't work on the site, it doesn't work as a persuasion architecture, or its power of influence is of great concern.
But it could've been anywhere in the city, because more than half the city of Nairobi lives like this.
A car traveling at 55 miles an hour covers the length of an American football field in just under four and a half seconds, but just so happens to be the same amount of time it takes the average person to check a text message.
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