remaining half

collocation in English

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remaining
adjective[before noun]
uk
/rɪˈmeɪ.nɪŋ/us
/rɪˈmeɪ.nɪŋ/
continuing to exist or be left after other parts or things have been used or ...
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half
noun
pronoun
predeterminer
adjective
adverb
uk
/hɑːf/us
/hæf/
either of the two equal or nearly equal parts that together make up ...
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(Definition ofremainingandhalffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theremaininghalfhandled discussion of specific cases by the committee as a whole.
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Theremaininghalfof the budget is to be allocated to research for which the subject or organization has been determined beforehand.
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Theremaininghalfwas owned by small landowners.
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Theremaininghalfcame from heavily subsidized sources.
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For example, at the cycle time 12, half the sequences yield four workstations, but theremaininghalfones yield five workstations.
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Theremaininghalfof the expenditure will be supported by rate support grant in the normal way.
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Theremaininghalfwill be owned, perhaps, by an investment trust company.
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There is a power for that length of time to be extended in exceptional circumstances; for example, to prevent a buildingremaininghalffinished.
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Of theremaininghalf, three-quarters of it—three-eighths of the whole—is concerned with expanding and modernising the plant.
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Theremaininghalfof the slum houses—just over half a million of them—are mostly concentrated in 38 towns and cities.
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Half the term is spent in custody and theremaininghalfunder supervision in the community.
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That would only be extended in exceptional circumstances—for example, to prevent the prospect of a buildingremaininghalf-finished.
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Theremaininghalf-million could have their unemployment insurance so increased that where they lost on the swings they would gain on the roundabouts.
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On the other hand, the remaining 39,000,000 persons divided theremaininghalfof the national income—£935,000,000.
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We hope that the topical tapes can he fully preserved within theremaininghalfof the transcription services subsidy.
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Of theremaininghalf, the landlord contributes three-fourths and the tenant one-fourth.
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The change that is made is that three-quarters shall be collected in the first half of the year and a quarter in theremaininghalf.
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Theremaininghalfof the expenditure will be supported by rate support grant.
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This will mean that theremaininghalfof their prospective gains will flow through to gaining areas in 1991–92.
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And theremaininghalfwill be at one-third footage.
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