21.   The country now produces nearly three-fourths of its petroleum needs, up from less than half a decade ago.

22.   The health industry has taken up sides on what has been a hard-fought issue for a least half a decade.

23.   Unlike Delphi, which has been at its task nearly half a decade, Exide had undergone almost no reorganizing at its plants before Weiner arrived in April.

24.   Pinheiro was the first U.N. human rights investigator allowed into the country in half a decade.

25.   De Croo said the situation had drastically changed since the royal family started opening up to the media half a decade ago.

26.   For half a decade, Moses Kiptanui has taken the world by surprise.

27.   For Florida, the last game means an opportunity to a fast climb that has lasted only half a decade.

28.   Half a decade ago, over half a million pigs in Belgium had to be destroyed to counter a major outbreak of disease.

29.   In the last more than half a decade, its economy had slowed down.

30.   Most wrestled free from Soviet-style central government half a decade ago, but the transition to a market economy has been rough.