Sentence examples for half the young from inspiring English sources

Half the young men in the room were unemployed.

Almost half the young people in the study defined success as being debt free.

THE OTHER HALF The young Chinese director Ying Liang's second feature, made in 2006, starts out as a work of cool, wry modernism but soon veers toward a fierce and harrowing cry of political rage.

In New York, half the young people interviewed said they would not have been pushed to those actions if they had had a safe place to stay.

A recent study found that 50 per cent of a sample of 2,500 young people between the ages of 15 and 20 could not name one way to protect themselves from HIV. Around half the young people in the same study believed that HIV could be transmitted by sharing chopsticks.

It's more than half the young adult working population.

For my brother's half — the younger set, the one that did not grow up in step with the Internet, but rather with it already established — there is no wariness, no understanding, no concept of an Internet identity.

Aborigines account for half of the young people incarcerated in the juvenile justice system.

"Half of the young men who joined as gunners never came home," he says.

Despite Nigeria's wealth of natural resources, almost half of the young in cities are jobless, according to official data.

Five years after that speech in Manhattan, half of the young men in that room were dead.