Sentence examples for half of food from inspiring English sources

Half of food bank users are there as a direct result of benefit sanctions.

The US provides roughly half of food aid globally at an estimated annual cost of $2bn.

Slightly less than half of food stamp beneficiaries are white, but in swing states the proportion is much higher.

A record number of people — 38 million, or nearly one in eight Americans — are now using food stamps, and nearly half of food stamp users are children.

But these days almost half of food stamp recipients are non-Hispanic whites; in Tennessee, home of the Bible-quoting Mr. Fincher, the number is 63 percent.

In Haiti, more than half of food distributions go through religious groups like World Vision that have indispensable networks on the ground.

A study of Britain's food system found that nearly half of food-vehicle miles (ie, miles travelled by vehicles carrying food) were driven by cars going to and from the shops.

Painter et al. ([2013]) reported that produce accounted for nearly half of food-borne illnesses in the U.S. between 1998 and 2008.

Their findings showed that meat and other animal products are responsible for more than half of food-related greenhouse gas emissions, despite providing only a fifth of the calories we eat and drink.

The seven participating restaurants and two stores represented one-third of all restaurants and one-half of food stores in the intervention community.

The keeper then gave them the food they wanted, half of the food they wanted, or the food they did not like.