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How to pronounce one-half in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms half
Type of common fraction, simple fraction
Has types fifty percent, mediety, moiety

Examples of one-half

one-half
The division contributed roughly one-third of 2006 revenues and half of profits.
From the forbes.com
No one doubts that he'll put up the full half a billion dollars he has promised.
From the businessweek.com
You can hire one of a half-dozen or so luggage forwarders, such as Luggage Free.
From the businessweek.com
One of them, the Buddhist Aiea Hongwanji Mission, is less than half a mile away.
From the newsweek.com
The $2,500 came to less than half of one percent of her contributions, she said.
From the charlotteobserver.com
With the wind at their backs, it was largely one-way traffic in the second half.
From the getreading.co.uk
In August 2010, more than half of the normal monsoon rain fell in only one week.
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
Half-measures will result in a new equilibrium, but one that is still too heavy.
From the economist.com
It looks like one day he could be an England centre-half for many years to come.
From the independent.co.uk