The phrase "a useful half" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a portion of something that is beneficial or helpful, often in a context where something is divided into parts.
Example: "In our discussion, we found that a useful half of the information was about market trends."
Alternatives: "a helpful portion" or "a beneficial segment".
Wyeth sells consumer and animal-health products, which could help diversify Pfizer's revenue base (though it also suggests that Pfizer erred in selling its well-regarded consumer-products division to Johnson & Johnson, an American rival, two years ago).This deal is a useful "half step" forward for Pfizer, says Charles Farkas of Bain, a consultancy, but no more.
She advises Asian women to use rose or plum blush and lipstick, and mentions a useful half-inch-wide lash curler.
To call the 18th century the Age of Reason is to seize on a useful half-truth but to cause confusion in the general picture, because the primacy of reason had also been a mark of certain periods of the previous age.
Freddie Butler formed a useful half-back partnership with Schmidt at Mullingar RFC and still coaches at the club.
Steven, which is from the US, takes the rough idea of an emoji social network and fleshes it out into something that could feasibly be useful – half life-logging app like Facebook-owned Moves, half photo-sharing social network like Facebook-owned Instagram.
If the useful half-life of our training continuously shrinking, then why has our educational system been the same for generations?
Half useful and half fun, Webzari joins a list of recent visualization initiatives from big vendors.
Leicester Square Theatre, WC2, Sat Winning the BBC new comedy award may not be a guarantee of fame, but it isn't half a useful leg-up.
Scotland, who came back from 8-0 down at half time in Salford to inflict a first defeat of the competition on the Tomahawks, had already lost first-choice number nine Ian Henderson to a knee injury, but Danny Addy slotted in as a useful back-up dummy half.
"Getting the product right is half the battle; communicating to non-users that it's a useful, live service is the other half," Pachter added.
QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.
