Sentence examples for about half the amount from inspiring English sources

The phrase "about half the amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating a quantity that is roughly 50% of a specified total.
Example: "The recipe calls for one cup of sugar, but I only have about half the amount, so I'll use half a cup instead."
Alternatives: "approximately half the quantity" or "roughly half the total".

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It is currently funded at about half the amount that has been allotted, which means a lot of research ideas that should be funded, aren't.

"We could do 6,140 body-worn cameras for about half" the amount the LAPD is planning to spend, said McKeeman, whose firm is negotiating a contract to provide body cameras for police officers in Long Beach.

The pension fund now has about half the amount needed.

About half the amount the Australian Olympic Committee lobbied for.

About half the amount owed was individual income taxes and 41percentt was payroll taxes.

Pilatus has €126.9m in assets – about half the amount it had in December 2016.

That is about half the amount that analysts had speculated it would aim for, but the figure could rise.

Last year the country secured only $60m in foreign capital, about half the amount of the previous year.

That is about half the amount Chrysler had in 2007, after Cerberus Capital Management acquired it from Daimler of Germany.

"These figures put us well behind Morocco and are only about half the amount consumed in Tunisia," Hamani said.

Last December, it sold its holdings to a state-owned company for $100 million, about half the amount invested.

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