Sentence examples for half their children from inspiring English sources

When both parents are left-handed, about half their children are right-handed.

Women who carry a defective gene on one X chromosome can compensate with the good copy on their other X chromosome, but they bequeath the defective copy to half their children.

More than half their children were poor, three out of four if the mother had never married.

Nearly half of their children also had the large particles, suggesting an even chance of inheriting the quality, Dr. Barzilai said.

She says Magic Breakfast targets real need in a positive environment by accepting schools that have more than half of their children entitled to free meals and also are working to achieve the government's Healthy School Award.

The last two countries have the capabilities to build and manage nuclear weapons but fail to give more than half of their children the official means to prove they exist or to participate fully in society.

The teachers' survey also found that: 55% said up to a quarter of pupils arrived hungry; 28% said up to a half of their children did; 8% said it was up to three-quarters; and 2% said it was every pupil.

Such is the case with achondroplasia, so that a couple with one affected partner and one unaffected partner will typically see half of their children affected, whereas a couple with both partners affected will see two-thirds of their surviving children affected and one-third unaffected, because 1 out of 4 conceptions will produce a homozygous fetus who will die before or shortly after birth.

To wit, 61percentt of parents believe their teens are getting adequate rest, while more than half of their children (52percentt) report that they get less than six hours of sleep on weeknights.

Thomason et al. (2013) found that almost half of their children at 5 years postoperatively had improved functional mobility at 50 m and 500 m, which has been confirmed by our results.

"We have lots of friends who stay at home for up to a year-and-a-half with their children and they get money for it.