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Half in sentence

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Then there's this: "Love you, love your magazine, but can you please stop writing massive numbers as text?" [two and a half million ...] No. (Laughter) One last cri de coeur from a spelling stickler: ["Those long stringy things are vocal cords, not chords."]
Here is one from a story about Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy: [A dock that had been broken in the middle and lost its other half sloped down toward the water, its support pipes and wires leaning forward like when you open a box of linguine and it slides out.]
One reason is that news networks have reduced the number of their foreign bureaus by half.
A natural biological process that every girl and woman goes through every month for about half of her life.
Our marathon game only lasted two and a half hours - far shorter and more strategic than most of the games they normally play.
And I have this at a pretty granular level, so I can tell you that the men in the eastern half of Long Island are way more interested in being spanked than men in the western half of Long Island.
I'll keep this quick, but Mendelian genetics says when a male and a female mate, their baby inherits half of its DNA from each parent.
For half of the subjects, we said that the wife was having an affair with the best friend.
For the other half, we said that the wife is loyal and the husband is very jealous.
And I've done it this way for half the audience, who is scientific.
In half of the videos, the children lied.
In the other half of the videos, the children told the truth.
But about half of our military has filed for some kind of PTSD compensation from the government.
The other half described those features in their present selves, and predicted what they would be ten years in the future.
Half the world, including Russia, South Africa and most of the US, regulates sex work by criminalizing everyone involved.
You can split them in half.
And somewhere there's a man, a man in a janitor's uniform, stumbling home drunk and dizzy after spending half his paycheck on 40-ounce bottles of twist-off beer, and the other half on a four-hour visit to some lady's house on a street where the lights have all been shot out by people who'd rather do what they do in this city in the dark.
And half a block away from janitor man, there's a group of good-for-nothings who don't know no better, waiting for janitor man with rusted bicycle chains and imitation Louisville Sluggers, and if they don't find a cent on him, which they won't, they'll just pound at him till the muscles in their arms start burning, till there's no more teeth to crack out.
We also know in the absence of therapy, half those babies will not survive until the age of two.
And by now, some of you may be asking yourselves, and I just want to reassure you, that I did get half the money up front.
Obviously the impact of your work has been written about and I'm sure you've heard about it all your life: what it meant to people, what it meant to our culture, you heard the applause when I just named the names of the shows, you raised half the people in the room through your work.
Half of guys who smoke are impotent.
If this picture represents the world's poor, then more than half engage in farming as a major source of income.
When farmers become more productive, then more than half the world's poor earn more money and climb out of poverty.
But we analyzed every 50-mile by 50-mile block on the continent, and we found that half of farmers live in just these shaded regions.
Why should two people buy the same product, pay the same, but one person receive half or a third of the service.
Half of adult Americans, on approximation, have hypertension.
On at least one, and maybe only one of those planets, primitive life evolved, which evolved over millions of years into things that walked upright and left footprints about three and a half million years ago in the mud flats of Tanzania, and eventually left a footprint on another world.
Hundreds of people came with shovels and hoes, and we excavated that hill in half the time and half the cost of that bulldozer.
And on this job site, 15 years after the Rwandan genocide, Bruce insisted that we bring on labor from all backgrounds, and that half of them be women.
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