By century's end, the United Nations estimates, the present population of 120 million will be cut in half.

We are talking here about intelligent mammals whose entire population was cut in half in a single decade.

The town began a slow recovery, but in 1782, in a great fire, it almost completely burned, and as a result, its population was cut by half.

It was a happy chance that the population of the world was already cut by more than half, or complete starvation would have followed the reorganization of the seasons.

Near Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, on the eastern shore, the population of 10 yellow-shouldered blackbirds has been cut to two, probably dooming the bird there.

The population has been cut in half, schools have closed and businesses have failed.

The population had been cut in half in three and a half years, and these people celebrated?

In 2000, Garfield's population had been cut almost in half to 5,450 people, 83% of them black.

But population, over the entire country, was cut back to a smaller replacement level.

Studies in Maryland revealed that the population in one area was cut in half between 1965 and 1975.