Collocations with half

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northern half
The southern half of the country has low mortality ratios for arteriosclerotic heart disease, the northern half has high ratios.
outer half
As previously mentioned, this progression of the leading edge reflects the dominant influence of the negative vorticity in the outer half of the jet.
posterior half
By applying half-beam block, the posterior half of the field is blocked off and the volume of lung irradiated is thus minimized.
remaining half
The remaining half handled discussion of specific cases by the committee as a whole.
southern half
The uplifting side of the faults provided large quantities of sand which filled the southern half of the large swamp.
upper half
In the matrix only the upper half is used.
western half
In contrast, most of the pro-government marches originated from the poorer, western half of the city.
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