fifty percent
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“How do we discuss the issue of peace and security and leave out fifty percent of the population?”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Last week, fifty percent of passengers on two different flights from China to Milan tested positive for COVID-19, according to multiple reports.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2023
Treating that population at home is a potentially lucrative market: Revenue in home health care grew by more than fifty percent between 2013 and 2020, according to the Census Bureau.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
When DNA grown in 15N is switched to media containing 14N, after one round of cell division the DNA sediments halfway between the 15N and 14N levels, indicating that it now contains fifty percent 14N.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
And say fifty percent of those possible responses were kind, decent ones, like, “That’s okay, Ida. No problem.”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
