one-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline.    From LearnThat.org.  [Carl Zuckmayer]

Hancock had now fully one-half of the Army of the Potomac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

But those same schools account for nearly one-half off all defaults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Student Loan Defaults Rise, Especially At For-Profits] Reference

But before his entreaty was ended, one-half of her companions had fainted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

The neighbors in the next apartment had a right to one-half of the balcony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The railroads of North Carolina are four feet eight and one-half inches gauge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

If you want to jazz it up, try one-half fruit juice, one-half carbonated water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Side of Vitaminwater] Reference

After training for one hour, you determine that you have lost one-half a pound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cycling Nutrition with Monique Ryan: Meal plans for the cyclocross season] Reference

And a pasta recipe called for one-half cup per serving in 1936, but two-thirds cup in 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is your cookbook making you fat?] Reference

I shuffle out on cue to endure the next twenty three hours and fifty nine and one-half minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Seconds] Reference

More than eight in 10 respondents in the core said they lived within one-half mile of a bus stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The car is still king of D.C. area commute] Reference

This is carried to such an extent that one-half of the family life of Christendom is deprived of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Kate McGarrigle may be best remembered by an older generation as one-half of the McGarrigle Sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Singer Kate McGarrigle Dies At 63] Reference

For those thirty seconds, I endure the other twenty three hours and fifty nine and one-half minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Seconds] Reference

At that time the "true state of affairs" was that the enemy had from one-third to one-half his force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

I presume that at least one-half of the readers of this essay are any thing but well satisfied with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Premium has a maximum of 1 percent ash content while superpremium has less than one-half of one percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Questions for . . . Jon Strimling, President of WoodPellets.com] Reference

The media stayed away as if on cue; about one-half of the limited seats at the press conference were empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Detroit Auto Show: Attendance off with sales] Reference

But according to one-half of the team behind the index, Professor Karl Case, there's some good news as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Professor: Now Is The Time To Buy A House] Reference

Results appear quickly, in about one-half second, which matches the performance of the other products tested.    From Wordnik.com.  [ISYS Personal Edition, Version 9.6] Reference

He was one-half of the celebrated Louvin Brothers, one of the hottest acts in country music in the late 1950s.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Late Lift for Country Legend Louvin] Reference

The threshold for a recount in that race is one-half of a percent, a bar Maes is easily clearing at this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handel concedes to Deal in Georgia GOP governor primary] Reference

A new EPI report shows that rising trade deficits with China will cost one-half million U.S. jobs in 2010 alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert E. Scott: Tide Turning on China Currency: Opponents Recycling Tired Arguments] Reference

With these forces, my idea would have been to divide them, sending one-half to Mobile, and the other half to Savannah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

He's calling for 33,000 volunteers to form a line for one-half hour along the 29-mile path where the wall used to stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts On A Human Re-Creation Of The Berlin Wall] Reference

Web site is for "1 small cone or cup," or one-half cup; the small cones my family ordered held at least twice that much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting calories on the boardwalk] Reference

The SEC's fine amounts to one-half of one percent of his income in the year he allegedly ripped off his own shareholders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zach Carter: Will Anyone Be Punished for Citibank's $40 Billion Subprime Lie?] Reference

First of all, on the huge success, they still have an output per capita that's probably one-third to one-half of Taiwan's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Bruce Greenwald] Reference

Congress approved a bill which would make available one-half of the adjusted compensation from the Soldier's Bonus Act of 1924.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrett Johnson: Fairy Tales and History Rhymes] Reference

Richmond papers, and a member of the rebel Congress said a few days since in a speech, that one-half of it had been brought to South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The leftover reservation was for one-half of a partner cubby, in which my guy friend, to his surprise, ended up with a spooning buddy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Budak: Overnight Bus Rides in India] Reference

Monroe, to organize the force anew, and take about one-half of its members from ex-Union soldiers who when discharged had settled in New.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

 The leftover reservation was for one-half of a partner cubby, in which my guy friend, to his surprise, ended up with a spooning buddy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Budak: Overnight Bus Rides in India] Reference

The let-alone policy had demoralized this force so that probably but little more than one-half of it was ever present in garrison at any one time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The farms of the United States afford homes and employment for more than one-half our people, and furnish much the largest part of all our exports.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

This is one of the illustrations of man's selfishness -- that he sets up his needs as the rule by which the rights of one-half of the human race are to be determined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference