Sentence examples for the nearest half from inspiring English sources

Applying the latter rule, the Morgan ALP TPP estimate falls from 54.5%too 52.6% (or 52.5%, rounding to the nearest half percentage point), which is still on the high side, but a little more plausible.

Measured data was rounded off to the nearest half millimeter (mm).

The Chinese mariner's compass is divided into 24 divisions (i.e. 15° per division), but compass needle directions are often quoted to the nearest half division that is 7.5°.

The amounts of fibers added are normally not weighed, neither the steel nor the synthetic fibers, but the sacks are counted, and rounded off to the nearest half sack (Nikolaisen 2010).

The quarter pixels are interpolated from the nearest half pixels in the horizontal direction and in the vertical direction, respectively, using type A, type B, or type C filter.

Doses were rounded up to the nearest half tablet.

Courses will also be described in yards as well as the nearest half-furlong.

Participants were instructed to treat the standard as one unit of distance and to estimate distances towards the stop-point locations to the nearest half-standard unit.

If the analyst had a priori reasons to believe that the crime was normally distributed in time, he or she could simply take the median minute of crime described by Felson and Poulsen (2003, 597), round it to the nearest half-hour, and take that as the middle of the deployment time.

The doctors and nurses, however, recorded the heights and weights with a great attention to detail; heights were recorded to the nearest half-centimeter and weights were recorded to the nearest 100 g.

The size of each tagged whale shark was estimated to the nearest half-meter by positioning the research boat parallel and as close as possible to each shark and then measuring against a metric scale marked on the side of the boat.