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"half as likely" is a perfectly valid expression in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to convey the idea that something is half as probable or likely to occur as it would otherwise be. For example: "Due to the current economic climate, people are half as likely to buy a new car this year as they were last year."
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Optimistic coronary bypass patients were only half as likely as pessimists to require re-hospitalization.
Black children of poor parents are half as likely as their white counterparts to become rich.
When they analyzed the data, they found that optimists were only half as likely as pessimists to require re-hospitalization.
Americans are half as likely as Japanese to admit that they are often afraid of saying the wrong thing.
And black women were about half as likely as white women to be stay-at-home mothers.
Recent statistics show girls leaving school are half as likely as boys are to be physically fit.
Men were about half as likely as women to be obese (PR 0.53; 0.42 to 0.67).
Patients with outbreak-associated infections were half as likely as those with sporadic infections to have CIR (Table 3).
They were about half as likely as seronegative patients to have IgG antibodies to rubella virus (odds ratio [OR] = 0.59).
They were half as likely to be arrested and earned 50percentt more in salary.
However, you are half as likely to have someone yelling at you.
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