in half

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Last year, McDonald reorganized his leadership team as part of a push to cut the two-year product-development cycle roughly in half.

From The Wall Street Journal

Supernova explosions are sometimes so energetic that they can even outshine their home galaxies, accelerating the material to speeds of over 1000 km/s — an airplane at this speed could fly around the entire globe in half a minute.

From Space Scoop

"Net migration is at its lowest level in half a decade and has fallen by more than two-thirds under this government," she said in a statement.

From BBC

Employers showed little appetite for hiring, which fell in half of the Fed’s 12 regional districts, while the recently ended federal government shutdown and artificial intelligence also weighed on job seekers’ prospects, according to the “beige book,” an anecdotal look at the economy, gleaned from surveys and interviews by each of the Fed’s branches.

From The Wall Street Journal

Employers’ appetite for hiring fell in half of the Fed’s 12 regional divisions, the central bank said.

From The Wall Street Journal