The phrase "approaching half the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities, percentages, or measurements that are nearing fifty percent of a whole.
Example: "The project is approaching half the budget we initially allocated, so we need to reassess our spending."
Alternatives: "nearly half of the" or "close to half the".
Arboreal snakes are the most elongated and slender of all, with the tail (the region posterior to the anus) approaching half the length of the entire body.
To put this another way, approaching half the current budget deficit is the result of job destruction in Britain's older industrial areas".
This emigration, along with a return to the country of ethnic Kazakhs, changed the demographic makeup of Kazakhstan: by the mid-1990s the Kazakh proportion was approaching half the total population, while that for the Russians was closer to one-third.
This was confirmed in approaching half the text comments [see Additional file 7].
That sum is approaching half the average £162,000 house price in England and Wales.
The chancellor said the budget deficit was nearly approaching half the level inherited by the coalition after the 2010 general election.
This means that approaching half want the club to stick with Moyes until the close of the current campaign, at least.
Long Island executives hope the coming year's growth approaches half the 2000 pace; the fear is that it could fall below even that.
From [6], it is easily proved that the bit error probability after FF hard decision decoding approaches half the frame error probability, as in [16, 17].
Among the report's findings: -Given that 2007 government spending stood at $2.73 trillion, the hidden tax of regulation now approaches half the level of federal spending itself.
So we saw people who had Etsy stores — I would say approaching half of the people who were using the laser were using it to help produce something that they were ultimately turning into a commercial product… They were often making designs for their own home, or products for them to use.
