1.   Banks are also seen reporting smaller profits in what has been their worst year in half a decade.

2.   But Carter saw something in the grungy looking yet self-possessed redhead at that first audition half a decade ago.

3.   But half a decade later, magazines for teen-agers have reached a new level of adult frankness.

4.   Did it bother him that he had let this lie sit out there for half a decade?

5.   Disney has its reasons for stepping into the quicksand that sucked Fox downward for half a decade.

6.   For almost half a decade, Congress has been wrestling with different versions of the so-called Patients Bill of Rights.

7.   For half a decade, the team that once was the king of Puget Sound spring has been among the unwashed.

8.   For more than half a decade, the Clinton administration was shoveling atomic secrets out the door as fast as it could, literally by the ton.

9.   Half a decade later, he is grayer around the temples.

10.   Half a decade later, the dispute is still unsettled.