"the one half" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used when referring to a particular portion or portion size of something. For example, "I ate the one half of the sandwich."
I can respond to the one half; you can respond to the match.
The vampire and the transvestite – both disturbingly ambivalent creatures when you think about it (the one half dead and half alive, the other half man and half woman) – enter each other's loneliness.
There is no time like the summer for bringing about the ultimate cleavage in the personality, the final, palpable splitting of the basic gentleman or lady so that you can recognize, and even nod to, the one person in the one half & the other person in the other half.
By St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, July 12 , 1941P. 7 There is no time like the summer for bringing about the ultimate cleavage in the personality, the final, palpable splitting of the basic gentleman or lady so that you can recognize, and even nod to, the one person in the one half & the other person in the other half.
You know, the one half of any relationship you create and the only part you can control.
The one half of one half of one percent that own 96% of our wealth just really have to go for it--you know, feed at the trough.
So you have to decide: Do you want to spend the one half-hour that you're not car-pooling or waiting in line at ShopRite standing there, dripping and almost naked, arguing with a stranger?
Inside of the one half-second of trading represented by the video, more than 1,200 orders and 215 actual trades occur, Hunsader says.
To examine this possibility, we divided the entire set of centromere-overlapping 20-kb loci into two categories based on the measured enrichment for CENH3, where the one-half of the loci with greater than the median enrichment are "high CENH3 loci" and the one-half of the loci with less than the median enrichment are "low CENH3 loci".
* * * In a strange country, the one-half of the company, at least, ought to remain on shipboard, and the rest who go on land should keep sobriety and abstain from suspected places, or else should be punished in body and purse; like as he who absents himself when the ship is ready to sail.
Whether by divorce or by spousal death, you are now on your own; yet your emotional being is still in the "one-half of a couple" mindset.
