The phrase "half of the answer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a specific answer that is only partially understood or known. For example, "We still don't know what caused the car accident, but we have half of the answer."
House embodies the other half of the answer to Michael Eisner's loaded question: better technology or better commercial?
For years, Willoughby has been the lesser-known half of the answer to this trivia question: Who were the first two players to go directly from high school to the N.B.A.? He made the jump along with Darryl Dawkins.
One half of the answer is obviously metrics, particularly around revenue growth.
The other half of the answer is more qualitative, and simply has to do with the founders of both companies matching certain archetypes of success.
Since initial hemodynamic resuscitation should be targeted to achieve not only adequate CO but also adequate MAP to guarantee perfusion pressure to all vascular beds [ 9, 10], determining whether a patient is preload-dependent only provides half of the answer, because the arterial pressure response to volume administration depends on arterial tone.
Heck, I don't have even half of the answers.
Most people got a little less than half of the answers right -- at 44.2percentt -- and adults did better than children at the test, researchers found.
Only 7357 (28.72%) of players answered puzzles and, more surprisingly, 49 players (0.7%) contributed to half of the answers (74,356 answers) that we received.
Although we checked their basic health knowledge, such as vaccination schedules and diarrhea prevention methods, 35%% of them could not get even half of the answers right.
Sixty per cent (534/891) of female patients answered and returned TEP and 530 were included in our final dataset, as four respondents were excluded (one male patient, and three patients because of invalid answers or more than half of the answers missing).
The argument used by Oliver, himself a former BBC news executive, is that while robust questioning of politicians is entirely legitimate, it was unfair of Davis to ask questions and then immediately withdraw them just because the presenter did not like the first half sentence of the answer offered.
