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Meanings of gives half in English

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Usage of gives half in English
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The southern exposure gives the ideal case because the sun gives half time nearly to each side.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
2
I believe that she gives half the grandeur away, and keeps the other half for the children.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
3
The one who always leaves a twenty-five-percent tip and who gives half his roll to his dog?
The Storyteller
4
With respect to the coincidence of the shelves with the now watersheds, Mr. Milne only gives half of my explanation.
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5
He gives half a sovereign for a ticket, then reads it upside down, and gives it away to an Irishwoman.
Rollo on the Atlantic
6
He takes the fish cake from his pocket, tears the package open, and gives half to the cat, who gobbles it down.
After dark
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Because there's hardly a thief in Algiers mean enough to steal from Jeanne Soubise, who gives half she has to the poor.
The Golden Silence
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But it must be some consolation to know that nothing else in the world gives half as much pleasure to so many people.
Pipefuls
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A slight rubbing of the finger gives half tones when wanted, and is often serviceable in giving greater solidity and finish to the work.
Line and Form (1900)
10
She groans with desire, rips it open, then hesitates, breaks it in two, and gives half to Rukungu, who accepts it without a word.
Night of knives
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They could see no dishonesty where a man who is paid for an hour's work gives half an hour's consistent idling in its place.
Essays of Travel
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If the present model gives half less, it is because I have purposely exaggerated the solidity of the trough and the mass of the electrodes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
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The product specs say that one minute of cranking gives half an hour of radio-play, and it will run for seven hours when fully charged.
Wired
14
Even if Vodafone gives half the proceeds to its shareholders and pays down its debt, it will have the firepower to gobble up more companies.
Reuters
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