Due to high urban density, there are not many filling stations ; Petrol in Hong Kong averages around US $ 2. 04 per litre, of which over half the cost is taxes.

It had a 2-litre engine, half a litre less than permitted, and ran slowly with a broken clutch before retiring.

( L to R ) On ladder: Wine bottle # Sizes | Magnum ( 1. 5 litres ), full ( 0. 75 litre ), half ( 0. 375 litre ), quarter ( 0. 1875 litre ).

I said I would, but my death would be on his conscience, and if he let me stay here I would give him half a litre of spirits.

The pint ( abbreviated as " pt " or " p ") is a unit of volume or capacity that was once used across much of Europe with values varying from state to state from less than half a litre to over one litre.

At the peak of the industry in 1905, the plant established on Macquarie Island was processing 2000 penguins at a time, with each penguin yielding about half a litre of oil.

Riegele Spezi is sold mostly in half litre glass bottles, but 0. 33l and 1. 5l bottles are available as well.

Due to its thirst-quenching qualities, it is particularly popular in ski resorts and mountain huts, where it is often served in amounts of half a litre.

This is done by emptying half of a two-liter cola bottle and adding one litre of red wine to the bottle.

In second half of 1991, the engine displacement was increased to 3. 8 litres with the S38B38, except in North America and South Africa, which continued with the 3. 6 litre engine, because that one had emission controls fitted.

Steins usually come in sizes of a half litre or a full litre ( or comparable historic sizes ).

In Belgian cafés, when someone orders a demi ( English: " half "), he receives a 50 cl ( half litre ) glass ( with beer from the tap, or from 2 bottles of 25 cl ).

A litre to a litre and half is the common amount ingested.

LPG is popular in Australia, because it is less than half the price of petrol in urban areas ( approx-0. 75 per litre, as opposed to-1. 35 per litre for unleaded fuel and-1. 30 per litre for diesel, as of February 2010 ), and it is locally produced.

Estimates of French losses range from 2, 000 to 5, 000, with a suggested median point of 3, 500 which includes over a thousand captured wounded and nearly 2, 000 killed, half of which died on Orient.

Roman numerals have symbols for the decimal powers ( 1, 10, 100, 1000 ) and secondary symbols for half these values ( 5, 50, 500 ).

The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.

In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

About half of Germany's 500, 000 Jews fled before 1939, after which escape became almost impossible.

As of April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time, with hundreds of thousands of channels operating on a total of roughly 1, 500 servers out of roughly 3, 200 servers worldwide.

Over half the 500 or so killed were civilians caught in the crossfire.

Manufacturing, the main source of union strength in the United Kingdom, had shrunk by half during the early 1980s recession pushing unemployment from 1, 500, 000 to more than 3, 000, 000.

Conquered by the Ottoman army in the first half of the 15th century, the region remained a part of the Ottoman Empire for nearly 500 years, during which it gained a substantial Turkish minority, especially in the religious sense of Muslim ; some of those Muslims became so through conversions.

In the first year, Germany received one million tons of cereals, half a million tons of wheat, 900, 000 tons of oil, 100, 000 tons of cotton, 500, 000 tons of phosphates and considerable amounts of other vital raw materials, along with the transit of one million tons of soybeans from Manchuria.

Zealandia is 3, 500, 000 km² in area, larger than Greenland or India, and almost half the size of Australia.

There were 19, 500, 000 SIM cards active in the first half of 2007.

Lerwick, the capital and largest settlement, has a population of around 7, 500 and about half of the archipelago's total population of 22, 000 people live within of the town.

Both announcements came the following year after a letter signed by 1, 500 scientists called on political leaders to protect at least half of the boreal forest.

Olympic and World Championship velodromes must measure 250 m. Other events on the UCI International Calendar may be held in velodromes that measure between 133 m and 500 m, with a length such that a whole or half number of laps give a distance of 1 km.

At Crow Creek, South Dakota, as noted, archaeologists found a mass grave of ' more than 500 men, women, and children who had been slaughtered, scalped, and mutilated during an attack on their village a century and a half before Columbus's arrival ( ca.

* 500 BC — Darius I of Persia proclaims that Aramaic be the official language of the western half of his empire.

The fleet carries 10, 000 infantry, about half Byzantine and half foederati, and 5, 000 cavalry, consisting of 3, 000 Byzantine horseman, 1, 000 foreign allies ( Huns and Heruli ) and 1, 500 of Belisarius ' retainers ( bucellarii ).

Compared to the more than 500 letters known to Nicephorus Callistus in the fourteenth century, only about half that number had survived to the twentieth century.

In its heyday, newspapers typically paid UPI about half what they paid AP in the same cities for the same services: At one point, for example, the Chicago Sun-Times paid AP $ 12, 500 a week, but UPI only $ 5, 000 ; the Wall Street Journal paid AP $ 36, 000 a week, but UPI only $ 19, 300.

Subsequent measurement attempts arrived at values ranging from 2, 500 to 6, 000 km, or from slightly smaller than our Moon to nearly half the diameter of Earth.

The French First Army and British 2nd and 5th Armies attacked on 9 October on a 13, 500 yards front, from south of Broodseinde to St Jansbeek, to advance half of the distance from Broodseinde ridge to Passchendaele on the main front, led to heavy casualties on both sides, with advances in the north of the attack being retained by British and French troops and most of the ground taken in front of Passchendaele and on the Becelaere and Gheluvelt spurs being lost to German counter-attacks.

In 2005, Memphis was ranked the 4th most dangerous city with a population of 500, 000 or higher in the U. S. Crime in Memphis increased in 2005, and saw a dramatic rise in the first half of 2006.

* A half pint ( 284 ml ) of beer with 3. 5 % ABV contains almost exactly one unit ; however, most beers are stronger.

Giving 2 mg oral lorazepam will result in a peak total serum level of around 20 ng / ml around two hours later, half of which is lorazepam, half its inactive metabolite, lorazepam-glucuronide.

The first time it was tasted officially was 19th December 1854. It is sold in four size variants 180 ml ( quarter / Nip ), 350 ml ( half / Pint ), 750 ml ( full ), and a 1 liter bottle.

It typically has about 60 – 90 ml ( 2 – 3 fl oz ) capacity — half the size of a full coffee cup ( a tasse à café is about 120 ml ( 4 fl oz )).

As with most other premium grade dessert wines, Trockenbeerenauslese is to a large extent sold in half bottles of 375 ml.

) In contemporary SA pubs and restaurants, the most frequent measure is now the up-sized " schooner " of 285 ml, ( an " imperial half pint "), while " imperial pints " are also popular, particularly in bohemian, artistic and " theme " venues such as " British " and " Irish " pubs.