Meaning of half in English

Half-tone illustrations, requiring art paper plates, will be accepted in special circumstances.

The act of oviposition was very quick, often lasting less than half a second.

The top half of the students was allocated to the key class and the poorer half to the ordinary one.

It may be avoided by replacing the vortex half-line by a narrow vortex cone.

More than half of the self-harvesters reported 'trying something new' at their subplots.

About half reported an on-site in-patient unit with an average number of 17 beds (range 1-38).

The patients reported that they did not find the use of the assessment sheet a burden, and more than half reported that it was useful.

A year and a half after the constitution came into being, more than fifty political parties had emerged.

By then, over half the former division members were dead, and the average age of the 117 surviving members was seventy-three years.

The story is told that there are two personalities among psychologists, optimists and pessimists, who see the glass as half full or half empty, respectively.

Half of the participants took one form of the task and the other half took the other form.

The decline in residence with children was most rapid during the period from 1940 to 1980, when more than half the total change took place.

If timber price were to fall by a third, then benefits are still comparable to half the proceeds of logging being invested.

The trajectories of two group of dipoles located every half wavelength apart in the vertical are nonetheless clearly visible.

Roughly half of the measured trajectories are without this instability.

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