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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about one half" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating a quantity that is close to fifty percent.
Example: "The project is about one half complete, and we expect to finish it by the end of the week."
Alternatives: "approximately fifty percent" or "roughly half".
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About one half of the US adult population consumed one or more sandwiches on any given day.
The addition of cultures in experimental cheeses helped reduce ripening time to about one half.
About one half of the total world's population resides or works in buildings made of earth.
However, side-chain benzene rings are present in about one half of the selected polymers.
With the current traffic type distribution, about one half of the traffic load might be offloaded.
About one-fourth of CTs concentrate about one half of crimes of both types (right column).
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Average lesion sizes were significantly reduced to about one-half those on controls.
Its budget deficit is about one-half that of Greece.
They account for about one-half of all synthetic fibres.
For this recipe you will need about one-half pound.
Here we found seabird abundances that were 2 to 6 times greater within about one-half km of free drifting icebergs than the area between about one-half and one km from the iceberg edge.
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