The phrase "a half of fast" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a portion of time spent fasting, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "I managed to complete a half of fast before breaking my diet."
Alternatives: "half of the fast" or "part of the fast".
Analysts say there is also a desire to have the last word in the conflict and to have something to show for the week and a half of fast-mounting civilian deaths and the battering of homes and infrastructure.
He still doesn't have a home of his own, and after a year and a half of walking as fast as he could, he's not in much of a hurry to settle down.
According to a study from the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, more than half of fast food workers rely on some form of government assistance like SNAP food stamps or Medicaid to survive, and the total tax-payer subsidy exceeds $7 billion annually.
That's because the fast food industry's notoriously low wages force more than half of fast food workers to rely on some form of government assistance like food stamps or Medicaid to get by, a study from the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently found.
A Dutch study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology that found that adults living within a half-mile of fast food outlets were more likely to develop heart disease than those living further away.
Through a comprehensive survey and interviews, McKinsey found that nearly half of fast-growing companies invest significant funds and time in training sales teams, while only 29% of slow-growing companies do the same.
(By the way, half of fast-food workers make less than $18,000 a year, according to Census Bureau figures cited by NBC News. So let's maybe not be so hard on them?).
More than half of fast-food workers rely on public assistance, a reality that costs taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, according to an estimate from the National Employment Law Project published last week.
More than half of fast-fashion items are thrown away in less than a year, according to McKinsey's State of Fashion report last year.
Even if his survey results are accurate, more than half of fast-food consumers still want healthier fast food.
Half of fast-food workers during 2010-12 were aged 23 or over, according to John Schmitt and Janelle Jones of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a think-tank.
