William Hague

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

British Politician

Michael Greger

Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more days a week appeared to nearly halve their risk of suffering a heart attack compared with women who ate one serving or less per week.

American Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

German Philosopher

Stephen Hawking

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

English Physicist

Use 'halve' when splitting something into two parts that are as equal as possible.

Equal Parts

'Halve' often describes a physical action, like cutting or dividing objects.

Physical Division

Can be used figuratively to indicate reducing effort or responsibility.

Metaphorical Use

Use 'halve' when you describe reducing quantities, like time, money, or risk.

Reduce Amounts

'Halve' can suggest making something less intense or severe.

Less Intensity

When used informally, 'halve' doesn't always mean to divide by exactly 50%.

Not Always Exact

 But they're not a new idea. And the second is computational power. It actually takes a lot of computational power to make neural networks able to really sing, and in the last 15 years, we’ve been able to halve that, and that's partly what's enabled all this progress. But at the same time, I think we're doing several things wrong,

Jeff Dean: AI isn't as...

 working right back down to the farm, and there you can halve the amount of water and halve the chemical inputs, the yields increase, and 60 percent of the costs of running many of these farms with farmers with low incomes can be chemical imports. Yields increase, and you halve the input costs.

Steve Howard: Let's go...

 is that we know by getting modern neonatal incubators into any context, if we can keep premature babies warm, basically -- it's very simple -- we can halve infant mortality rates in those environments. So the technology is there. These are standard in all the industrialized worlds.

Where good ideas come...

 called the Millennium Development Goals. Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like developing countries promised to at least halve

Jamie Drummond: Let's...

 coming out of the UN. But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment. Because back in 2001, the UN agreed another set of goals, the Millennium Development Goals. And the flagship target there was to halve the proportion of people

How We Can Make the...

 So that is a potential. And if we were to go down that route what I would say is, instead of paying a few bucks a pound -- or a few bucks a ton, really -- and making it into aquafeed, could we halve the catch and double the price for the fishermen

The four fish we're...

 That’s right, halve. That is a huge undertaking. But, you know, I’m hopeful because climate is now mainstream and that is turning the global economy green. Increasingly, the Swampies of the world, they’re not protesting in trees and tunnels,

Alok Sharma: Why COP26...

 Did it almost double, did it remain more or less the same, or did it halve? A, B or C? Now, answers. You see, deaths from natural disasters in the world, you can see it from this graph here,

How not to be ignorant...

 So that in one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity. He went on to say that every two weeks, an elder goes to the grave carrying the last spoken word of that culture.

Phil Borges: Documenting...

 We actually had to halve its speed, because everyone was too scared when we first did it. So that's it speeded up.