The phrase "close to one half" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a value or quantity that is near or approaching one half or 50%. Example: "The students were divided into two groups, with close to one half of the class attending the morning session and the remaining students attending the afternoon session."
However, if you set up as close to the existing stall as possible, your share of the market will be very close to one half (figure 4).
The measured exponent in the TDF-I relation is close to one half.
However, already at periods close to one half of the lateral period, a transition to anticorrelated growth occurs [6, 30].
We note that in the insulating regime B < Bc, the exponent is again close to one half, consistent with the results at B = 0.
The results show that the maximum inelastic deformations occur for the ground motions for which the elastic fundamental period of the bridge is close to one half of the period of the predominant pulse.
Researchers have reached a consensus that a minimally important difference in HRQL is close to one half of a standard deviation [ 34].
However, in our study the percentage of children exposed to tobacco smoke at home (indoors or on patio/balcony) was closer to one half (55%).
The inner edge of the Cassini division, a prominent gap of lowered particle density in the main rings, has an orbital period close to one-half of that of Mimas, and this gap is thought to be formed at least in part by resonant interactions of ring particles with the moon.
Speaking from his house in Carlisle, Pa., near the United States Army War College, Colonel Glantz marveled that close to one-half of wartime Soviet operations -- including major battles involving hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers -- are simply "missing from history," either neglected or covered up.
In the expansion, close to one-half of the unemployed do not qualify for benefits.
The oil whirl phenomenon occurs when the journal bearings are lightly loaded and the shaft is whirling at a frequency close to one-half of rotor angular speed.
