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What does half mean?
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Examples half examples
How do I use half in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Half of the apples are rotten.
It's half past eight.
I'd like to buy half a cake.
Something you should know about me is that I half of what I say is meaningless.
Divide this in half.
I've been waiting half an hour.
Half-destroyed walls used to stand there.
Be home by half past six.
I've been waiting for the bus for half an hour.
We'll see each other in half an hour.
Half of these are Tom's.
Tom's half-sister is married to a Czech man and teaches English in Prague, where she also lives.
Tom learned that he has a half-sister who also lives in Boston.
Tom has no idea that he is dating his half-sister.
Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Almost half the men in Great Britain regularly give chocolate to their partner, especially for their birthday.
The price of the stock declined by half in a month.
Well begun is half done.
Half of the students are absent.
Half the students were absent.
Your camera is only half the size of mine.
I can walk to school in half an hour.
It is no more than half a mile to the sea.
Half of the town burnt down in the fire.
The first step is as good as half over.
Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.
Movie subtitles
And it's a story we ignore at our peril, because today, after half a millennium of tilting westwards, the world seems inexorably to be tilting to the East.
Thousands of wannabe mandarins would be locked in these cells, just three-and-a-half feet deep, about the same width, and only five-and-a-half feet high.
We're gonna be firing this at around three-and-a-half kilometres per second.
It was strong enough to rip it off-- rip the, like, rip its bone in half.
As we did this much, I think at least the half of his anger can be resolved.
It's half past already.
Uh. It was the only rhyme scheme I could remember, and I'm half-Irish, so.
First of all, I only half-entered.
Jastenity even offered me a half stick of gum.
Guys, come on, I know business meetings are boring, but can we just focus for the next half hour?
But then we found half a pound in here.
I'll give you guys half if you let me go, like, right now.
And, a half-eaten meat pie.
On March 10, 1950 a year and a half worth of work was lost.
In March 1952, just before the new receiver was finished, I went to Kootwijk for a month and a half to calibrate our radio telescope.
I could sell you half my shares.
Someone who's half-half.
Half French and half Arab.
Am I half Arab?
You're half Spanish, a quarter Kabyle and a quarter French.
Talabot has been waiting for you for half an hour.
Half the colonists are Spanish and can't read French.
I paid half already.
And Zig's never loved anyone half as much as Maya.
Well, whoever she was, she could not have been half as beautiful as you are right now.
Lots of money, like, half my paper route money.
When Scott sees Gerard cut the other werewolf in half, it makes him realize how real the situation is. You know, these guys aren't screwing around.
Jackson, can you, like, look at me for half a second?
We could finish morning surgery half an hour early -- we've very few appointments in the book.
Then I don't see why you can't squeeze in your house calls between 11 and half past 12 and drive them all to Roehampton after that.
It's just a swift half.
News and current affairs
The Sudairis, it seems, have apparently left their half brother alone to twist in the wind. Abdullah's proposal could weaken his position domestically, particularly in relation to the country's powerful Islamists.
It assures the three small Baltic countries that the nightmare of occupation by big neighbors (Hitler's Reich and Stalin's USSR), which they endured for half-a-century -- will not be repeated.
This withdrawal of the US consumer is part (perhaps half) of the process of rebalancing the global economy.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
Since Greece's current-account deficit as a share of GDP was three times higher than Ireland's, Greek prices would have to fall by about half to achieve the same kind of success.
So, in order to cut global carbon emissions in half by the middle of the century, we would obviously have to start getting a lot more of our energy from sources that don't emit carbon.
Yet its per capita CO2 emissions have fallen by less than half of the reduction achieved in the US - even in percentage terms, the US is now doing better.
Perhaps half of the children are severely underweight.
The big surprise is Europe, which, unlike in 2004 and the first half of 2005, now seems to be catching up with the rest of the world.
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential.
Malaria deaths in children in Africa were cut from a peak of around one million in 2004 to around 700,000 by 2010, and, worldwide, deaths of pregnant women declined by almost half between 1990 and 2010, from an estimated 543,000 to 287,000.
High construction employment has been good for American workers in the past half-decade - a period that has not produced much good for them.
And the crisis was a once-in-a-half-century event.
Those resources may include a tenth, a quarter, or even half of their income.
Is Burma, like South Africa under de Klerk, truly poised to emerge from a half-century of self-imposed isolation?
The 1976 plan called for sustainable logging and basic forest-fire control, but war intervened, costing Afghanistan half its forest cover.
Coal plants currently provide more than half of America's electricity supply.
Africa is a continent rich in energy, holding two-thirds of the world's reserves of hydro-electric power - trillions of kilowatt-hours representing about half of total world resources.
That reversal is one of the great under-reported stories of 2011 (and of the preceding two years), and the numbers are startling. Consider Spain, which is on track to lose more than a half-million residents by 2020.
Bolivia's 1988 buyback of close to half of its defaulted sovereign debt, an operation funded by international donors, is a classic example.
During the half-century of the Fifth Republic, a bipartisan system of left and right has traditionally prevailed.
Denmark, which houses some of the most efficient coal-fired power plants in the world, equally relies on coal for half of its electricity production.
Yet the recent revelation of the Czech writer Milan Kundera's presumed complicity in the face of Stalinism is but the latest of the long half-life of a toxic past.
Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler in place of his incapacitated half-brother King Fahd, is keen to be seen as a champion of reform.