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"That's why we are tripling investment over the next five years to halve spills from storm overflows and upgrade the capacity of 1,700 wastewater treatment works," a spokesperson said.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Volkswagen’s supervisory board this month approved a plan to cut 100,000 jobs and halve its model portfolio, in part due to the strain of increasing competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Blume and his team want to halve the number of models—still leaving Volkswagen with many more than peers, they say—and make sure those that survive better match the tastes of consumers in different markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The government said it was "taking bold and decisive action to halve violence against women and girls", with changes being introduced from September to help teachers challenge misogyny.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“Second, the idea of helping you halve your sentence and getting you back out and at large on the street two years earlier? Not terribly appealing.”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

“You could have folded a picture of them, and the two halves would’ve matched,” Herzog writes.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The data pointed to “both halves of the Fed’s problem at once,” said Vincent Ahn, a portfolio manager at SLW Investments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dresser wanted a Dutch door — one where both the top and bottom halves swing open independently — attached to their office space, where they sometimes isolate fosters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

"You don't really have too many halves of a cricket ball, so it would be something that we never forget."

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

They all followed the path as it fell down between the sharp halves of a cracked boulder, came into pine woods again, and finally rounded into a sudden clearing.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

A report by the Deutsche Bank Research Institute published in July found that the yen’s purchasing power had halved since 2012, making Japan an outlier in terms of the cheapness of its currency.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

In June 2025 there were more than 32,000 people in hotel rooms, but by June this year it had halved to more than 16,000.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

He said deliveries of crucial Patriot interceptors had halved since 2023.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

These investments have been slow to show results: Its net profit more than halved for the third consecutive quarter, while revenue has declined for more than a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Horton halved that number and estimated the dead at 100,000.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Microsoft asserted that the new chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, effectively halving the timeline to build a scalable quantum computer.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Now she has been banished along with fruit and vegetable sellers to a vacant lot with lower foot traffic, her turnover roughly halving as a result.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Brazilian exports to the US fell off a cliff, more than halving last summer.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

In the last cycle Micron stock peaked at the start of 2022, with the forward P/E at just nine times, ahead of a halving in the shares that year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

In the other hand I held my pitiful folding knife, so small it needed several runs at halving a good-sized apple.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss