Sentences with word «halves»

IBT Education has reported a five per cent drop in net profit to $ 14.1 million for the half - year to December 2005 but has forecast strong profit growth in the current six - month period.

But when it comes to fast - growth entrepreneurship of the exalted and peculiar variety that produces breakthrough entrepreneurs, the U.S. has done a great job of unlocking only about half of our human capital.

Meanwhile, it was a stomach - churning roller coaster ride for stock holders who watched their investment cut in half from the start of the year to the summer, before rebounding in the fall.

All three of its top leaders (called «emirs») have been killed since the group was founded, and, according to Jones, their numbers have almost been halved since their founding.

The transaction, which is expected to close in the second half of 2018, is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

In hot markets like Toronto, recent studies suggest that more than half of unit sales go to investors — both foreign and domestic.

In addition, half of the illegal immigrants in the U.S. actually entered legally, and simply refused to leave after the expiration of their short - term visas.

The president left the event to attend a meeting on school safety for more than a half - hour.

«Across the year, renewables now contribute over half of our electricity needs.»

Investors should have some of the portfolio hedged — a hedge on half could make sense, as that would essentially be a neutral call on currency, he says — but whether an entire basket of bonds is hedged is up to the manager.

«We do find that grooming accounts for the entire attractiveness premium for women, and only half of the premium for men,» the researchers explain.

But Senator Investment Group cut its position by more than half when it sold 875,000 shares and Third Point trimmed its holding by selling 400,000 shares to own 5 million.

She found that half the of the ingredients of a typical multivitamin were superfluous, so she whittled Rituals» signature «Essential for Women» formula down to nine key nutrients most women are lacking: vitamin D3, B12, folate, vitamin K2 MK7, omega - 3s, vitamin E, magnesium, iron, and boron.

Almost half of developers are still devoting their energies toward consoles, but the input differences are huge — high - end games are requiring an average of $ 8.7 million, 65 people and 583 days to produce, compared to just $ 300,000, seven people and 156 days for mobile games.

The implicit idea is that we women — more than half the earth's population — are all in one giant sisterhood club together.

Of the 100 women on the list, nearly half are from the United States.

Meanwhile, about half of all Americans have at least one chronic disease, which is accounting for 80 % of the healthcare costs.

The state - owned oil firm is expected to list on the Saudi stock exchange in the second half of the year, but an international listing is said to have been temporarily shelved.

New York - based Arconic said it now expected full - year profit of $ 1.17 to $ 1.27 per share, down from its previous forecast of $ 1.45 to $ 1.55, and halved its free cash flow estimate to $ 250 million.

When a prospect thinks you're going to provide them with valuable information, they'll listen closely to what you have to say — and that's half the battle of any sales conversation.

Moreover, with nearly half all of business R&D conducted by just twelve firms, there is even more reason for concern about long - term BERD performance.

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Snapchat's stratospheric engagement stats (to the tune of 100 million users spending a half hour on the platform per day) make it compelling for any brand.

They can move holes around, make it dirtier or cleaner looking, move the whiskers» — the term for the light crease lines across the front pocket area — «up or down a half an inch.»

I don't even know what this word means anymore, and we must use it a dozen times in the course of a half - hour news meeting here at Inc.com.

According to a recent survey of 2,000 American and European shoppers done by Astound Commerce a full 40 percent of us are planning to do more than half of our shopping via Amazon.

Is it because both parties have parts of their agendas that are anathema to half the country?

Shipbuilder Austal reported a big jump in profit for the first half of the financial year, while it is still unsure of what its exact role will be in the upcoming $ 3 billion offshore patrol vessel build program.

So I took small bites of my half while he dug in to his.

Remember when 23andMe got a warning letter shutting down half of its operations?

Markets around the world spent the first month and a half of 2016 zigzagging up and down over troubling news out of China and worries about losses in the banking sector.

Consider someone training for a half - marathon.

Tesla says it will be profitable in the second half of 2018 if it can meet its Model 3 vehicle production and delivery goals.

Applying this test, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a Muslim prisoner was free to practice his faith by wearing a half - inch beard that posed no risk to prison security.

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

These might sound like just the half - thought - out utterances of kids, but there is actually real wisdom in these everyday expressions, Riggle argues.

Lots in this community are wide and big, often up to a half or full acre.

«We still see around half a million veterans that are unemployed right now, and over a million veterans that are underemployed,» said Brian Stann, CEO of Hire Heroes USA.

More than half have actually lost readers since 2011, and the average paper's digital readership is about a third the size of its print readership.

As time has passed and America's internal political impasse has deepened almost to the bone, it has become clear how voters might wish to punish one party but not necessarily want to reward the other: roughly half the public, or more, dislikes the major parties.

(See How to Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for at least half the people in the room.

In my week and a half of testing the device I have to say I found that number to be quite accurate.

Refuse to leave half of the opportunities off the table, especially since those opportunities are huge.

Von Spee would end up crushing Cradock's squadron — two of its four ships were sunk, and over one and a half thousand sailors died, including Cradock himself.

We'll have 100 private - label products on the site by the end of 2016, and another 100 in the pipeline for the first half of 2017.

The aircraft builder said that the CS100 won't be going into service until the second half of 2015, while the larger CS300 will go into service about six months later.

If half of businesses fail in the first five years, what are the other half doing right and what can entrepreneurs learn from them?

But, choosing where to grow a company is only half the battle, because expanding into new markets is a tricky affair: Entrepreneurs must simultaneously cultivate their niche and adapt to a new consumer base (or bases).

Splitting these babies in half is a task that would bedevil Solomon.

According to Twitter, it received 25 information requests for Vine accounts in the first half of this year and 47 requests for Periscope accounts.