Sentence examples for attributed half from inspiring English sources

It attributed half of the retractions to embarrassing mistakes and half to "scientific misconduct" such as plagiarism, faked data and altered images.

A controversial theory proposed in 2001 by two academics, Steven Levitt (of "Freakonomics" fame) and John Donohue, which attributed half the previous decade's drop in crime to the legalisation of abortion in the 1970s, still has fans.

The front steps now led to nowhere (Vinny called them the "stairway to heaven"), but the backyard deck had survived almost completely intact, which Correa attributed, half-jokingly, to his superior carpentry skills.

Congdon attributes half the cost - 5% of GDP - to regulation.

It thereby allows the food industry to attribute half of the blame for weight-gain to individuals' inactivity, without truly addressing how highly-processed ingredients affect our health or metabolism in other ways.

Paul Godek, an economist with Economists Inc., attributes half the rise in market share for light trucks to mileage rules that forced automakers to reduce the size of their U.S.-made cars.

For this reason, our choice was to include all the data in the analysis, adopting the choice of attributing half the noise amplitude (noise – 6dB) to all signal levels below this threshold.

We attribute half of this time solely to the data cleaning process and reducing the time for data cleaning can translate into budget savings for the ART program or, perhaps more importantly, into reallocation of time during supervision visits to more crucial activities such as mentoring or discussing difficult cases.

Over the past year, Private Eye magazine has published cutting remarks about various women of colour in poetry – attributing half-Chinese Sarah Howe's win of the acclaimed TS Eliot prize to her good looks, and implying a kind of nepotism because British-Caribbean poet Malika Booker was head of the panel that chose two Caribbean women as Forward prize recipients.

Officials attributed about half of the decline to the company's tax rate quadrupling from a year ago.

Mr. Wiegand attributed about half the gains in disposable income, which has ballooned more than 5percentt in the last 12 months, to the cut last year in the federal income tax.