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Example sentences for: halved

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Bailey attributed the error to an overestimation of the total world fertility rate, which (his book documents) has nearly halved since the early 1960s.
As a result, it halved the number of vehicles it had to sell every year to break even.
By the end of the 1800s the population of the country was virtually halved.
Willes recently halved the price of the Times to 25 cents to reach nonsubscribers.
Meanwhile, the conservative Daily Telegraph downplayed the story with a small front-page reference, which noted, however, that "the vote, which halved the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and froze it in the Senate, was the best mid-term performance by a president's party since the 1930s."