At the rate of about two and a half parts per million per year.

The GSP rate is half of the MFN rates and subject to tariff quotas.

Studies show that households with equal earning and equal responsibility also have half the divorce rate.

Although we have successfully brought the population growth rate down, the task is only half complete.

In the first half of 2004, cases were received at twice the rate they were adjudicated.

The rate was applicable for only two and a half months (1 July 14 September 1996), while the higher rate of 949.70 per flying hour was applicable for the remaining nine and a half months of the financial period.

These floats reveal that the upper half of the ocean is gaining heat at a substantial rate.

In the case of Ukraine, output continued to fall in 1997, albeit by half the rate of 1996.

With that strategy, we aim, by 2009, to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent and to cut the poverty rate by half, to 8.1 percent.

Granting to workers the right to the first vacation leave after six months of employment, at the rate of half the normal rate of leave granted after one year apos s employment

The rate of bycatch in the Atlantic longline fleet, for example, was found to be one half of the total catch.

Firstly, the drop out rate of the courses shall be reduced by at least half of what it was in 1993.

The Bank of England s policy interest rate has remained just above zero for more than two and a half years. Regardless of the government s fiscal policy stance, this interest rate cannot move below zero.

By contrast, Africa apos s intra regional trade collapsed in the first half of the 1990s, declining at a rate of 9 per cent.

China currently saves and invests half of its GDP, but, as its workforce shrinks in the coming years, its investment rate is likely to fall sharply. However, aging will keep the saving rate from falling at the same pace.

The standard rate of maintenance is defined as the rate that is normally required to maintain a child who is in his mother apos s care given a simple standard of living (standard rate) as a rule, it is reduced by half of the child benefits payable for the child.

Since 1980, average real hourly compensation has increased at an annual rate of 1 , or half the rate of productivity growth. Wage gains have also become considerably more unequal, with the biggest increases claimed by the top 10 of earners.

The March unemployment rate of 8.2 was nearly three percentage points above what most economists would consider a desirable and sustainable long run level rate. Although the rate was down from 9 a year ago, about half of the change reflected a rise in the number of people who have stopped looking for work, rather than an increase in job creation and the employment rate.

Labor market experts thus consider the unemployment rate a potentially misleading indicator, because a youth unemployment rate of 50 does not mean that half of the young population is unemployed. That is why one should look at the unemployment ratio the percentage of the unemployed in the reference population rather than at the unemployment rate.

Furthermore, the growth rate in China s less developed eastern regions amounts to less than half of the national average. As a result, growth of industrial value added which contributes almost half of China s GDP is slowing even faster, from an average annual rate of 20 during China s boom years to less than 10 in 2010 2012 and just 7.8 in the first quarter of this year.

Notwithstanding sharp reductions in debt service traceable to the Fed s zero interest rate subsidy, the stock of debt is still about 116 of disposable personal income, well above the 43 average in the final three decades of the twentieth century. Similarly, the personal saving rate, at 4.25 in the first half of 2013, is less than half the 9.3 norm over the 1970 1999 period.

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it was half dance and half gym.

Unemployment is around 10 (still less than half the Spanish rate), and annual GDP growth is around 1 (Spain s growth rate is negative). But the moods in the two countries, as well as their perceptions of Europe and their role in it, contrast starkly.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has reported that the accident rate during the first half of 1998 has dropped from 50 incidents per month to approximately 20.

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)

At the Japanese MFN rate, the protection implied can be compared with two and a half times the overhead cost and salaries of management and staff of a shoe factory.

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Half!

Half?

There was this person, GeorgeGeorgina, half man, half woman.

Half a bitter for me. Two half bitters, please.

Rate is the periodic interest rate.

But China s investment rate is already too high, accounting for almost half of GDP. With capital intensity increasing significantly faster than labor productivity in China, the inefficiency of investment is clear.

The rate of population growth had been reduced by half to 1.53 per cent, and life expectancy had increased by 2 years to 73.9 years for men and 74.9 for women.

Unsurprisingly, the least developed countries, where almost half the population lives in extreme poverty and hunger, have the highest under five mortality rate (155 per 1,000 live births) in the world.

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

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

It is a wartorn, unhappy land... half Christian, half Moor.

Don't forget that you are half Incan and half Mexican.

Infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate

Especially threatened are children in Republika Srpska, where more than half of the population live in poor families, while in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina the rate is about one third.

With regard to reproductive health, the region has the country's highest average total fertility rate (4.5), and over half (54.1 per cent) of the female population of childbearing age uses no contraception.

The rate of annual enrolment in primary and secondary education is very low and not commensurate with the actual population of children, who constitute over half of the population of Sierra Leone.

However, in the case of common ownership by a couple, there is a possibility to deduct tax at a rate corresponding to half of the total income of the couple (splitting system).