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Discover LudwigThe phrase "have been halved" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a decrease in something such as numbers, amounts or sizes. For example, "The number of employees in the company has been halved since the recession of 2009."
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Their salaries have been halved.
Specialist domestic violence services are funded by local councils, whose budgets have been halved by Osborne, the group added.
High profile attacks have been halved from nearly 180 in March 2007 to approximately 90 in August 2007.
Shootings have been halved, robberies and rape are down by a third, and other violent crimes are down by a fifth.
Domestic violence rates have been halved since 1993, while rapes and sexual assaults against women have fallen by 70 percent in that time.
The deal takes Tate out of sugar refining completely, looks earnings neutral in 2011 and means that group net debt should have been halved inside two years.
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That time had been halved by the 1830s, and the "Great Western" steamship in 1838 halved it again to 15 days.
That has been halved.
The education gap has been halved.
Reliance on foreign aid has been halved.
Loews's debt has been halved.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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