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About half of Iceland's land area, which is of recent volcanic origin, consists of a mountainous lava desert ( highest elevation above sea level ) and other wasteland.
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About half of all Peace Corps projects assigned to voluntary agencies will be carried out by religious groups, according to an official of the corps.
About half of these are exported.
About half of Armenia's area of approximately has an elevation of at least, and only 3 % of the country lies below.
About 70 specimens have survived, roughly half of them on fibulae, others on belt buckles ( see Pforzen buckle, Bülach fibula ) and other jewelry and weapon parts.
About half of the NCOs are sergeants, who serve as command links between officers and ranks.
About half of those are located on the European continent, rather than on the British Isles.
About half of the 50 houses on this road had prostitutes advertising themselves in the windows, similar to Amsterdam.
About half of the floor is taken up by the apartment of the Residence Life Coordinator.
About half of the refugees were SPLA soldiers with more than 5000 weapons, who allegedly occupied towns as far as 200 km into the C. A. R.
About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.
About half of El Niño events persist sufficiently into the spring months for the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool ( WHWP ) to become unusually large in summer.
About half of political prisoners in the Gulag camps were imprisoned without trial ; official data suggest that there were over 2. 6 million sentences to imprisonment on cases investigated by the secret police throughout 1921-1953.
About a thousand known geysers exist worldwide, roughly half of which are in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.
About half of Germany's 500, 000 Jews fled before 1939, after which escape became almost impossible.
About half of Hungary ’ s total land area is agricultural area under cultivation ; this ratio is prominent among other EU members.
About London, for instance, perhaps half the prettier country is shut in against intrusion.
About half of all hafnium metal manufactured is produced as a by-product of zirconium refinement.
: ( UK ) About half Wales's size
About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).
About half the population live below the international poverty line of US $ 1. 25 a day.
About half of the territory is above the tree line.
About half of the currently recognised " traditional " English rhymes were known by the mid-18th century.
About half of the nucleoporins typically contain either an alpha solenoid or a beta-propeller fold, or in some cases both as separate structural domains.
About 5 – 10 % of these latent infections will eventually progress to active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than half of its victims.
About half of the residents had fled the city, including President George Washington.
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About 28. 4 % of the total land area consisted of forests and woodlands in 2000.
About 1, 500 hectares of government-owned land were distributed by the National Agrarian Institute ( Instituto Nacional Agrario — INA ) beginning in 1960.
About 70 % of the country's total territory is suitable for agriculture ; of this portion, 72 % is arable land.
About 83 % of the country's total territory is suitable for cultivation ; of this portion, 75 % ( around 50 % of the country's area ) is covered by arable land, which is an outstanding ratio compared to other EU countries.
About one-fifth of the land is arable ; another tenth is pasture.
About 75 percent of the student body is composed of equal representation from the land, air, and sea ( including Marine and Coast Guard ) Services.
About 57 % of Pakistan's total land area is under cultivation and is watered by one of the largest irrigation systems in the world.
About only 4 % of land in Pakistan is covered with forests.
* February 19 – WWII – Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30, 000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
** About 8, 000 U. S. soldiers land in South Vietnam ; U. S. troops now total 190, 000.
About 18 % of this plant biomass is eaten by the land animals.
About 10 km² of forested land were flooded to form Lake Marathon.
About 43 % of the land is owned by the state, with 57 % private inholdings, heavily regulated by the Adirondack Park Agency.
About 1802, the Oneida agreed to allocate about 22, 000 acres of their land to the Stockbridge and Munsee ( Lenape ), who were seeking refuge from anti-Native American conflicts by American settlers after the Revolution.
About 40 percent of the applicants who started the process were able to complete it and obtain title to their homestead land.
About 11 % of the land area consists of forests.
About 22. 6 % of the total land area is arable.
About half of the eastern border, with Baltimore County, is formed by the North Branch of the Patapsco River and by Liberty Reservoir, though the northern half near Manchester and Hampstead is a land border.
About 70 % of lightning occurs on land in the tropics, where most thunderstorms occur.
About 80 percent of the land in Chile is made up of mountains of some form or other.
About, or 22 % of the total land area, is forested.
About 67 % of Bangladesh's nonurban land is arable.
About, or 37. 2 % of the total land area, are classified as arable.
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