31.   Only half a year earlier, the United States and Japan signed a trade agreement aimed at opening Japanese public works projects to foreign construction companies.

32.   Ozawa describes the decision as grueling, one that was debated over the kitchen table for half a year.

33.   Sharon Srague, co-chairwoman of the PTA fears that a third relocation in half a year would further depress enrollment.

34.   The agency is taking half a year to resolve a complaint, twice as long asagency standards.

35.   The anger of those Russians who, for instance, have not been paid for half a year, could start to mount.

36.   The Republicans assert that they agreed to fund only the Census Bureau for half a year.

37.   Yet even with all of that, De La Hoya learned how quickly it can change when half a year passes and you do not ascend the stage.

38.   Penalties ranged from reprimands to temporary pay cuts and to suspensions for up to half a year.

39.   Rebel forces were closing in on the Zairean capital Kinsasha, poised to finish off a military campaign that has lasted little more than half a year.

40.   Rebel forces were closing in on the Zairian capital poised to finish off a military campaign that has lasted little more than half a year.