How To Use Fifty-fifty In A Sentence
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A couple of the multicellular test subjects died and the invertebrates had a fifty-fifty survival rate.
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There's been no word of a pre-nup, so odds are good that a divorce court will order dissolution of the common property and a fifty-fifty split.
The Seduction of Archie Andrews
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Costs are to be shared on a fifty-fifty basis between the government and local businesses.
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He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all.
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I'll go with you fifty-fifty on the winnings.
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We'll divide the profit fifty-fifty.
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‘Travelling with a partner is a fifty-fifty kind of deal,’ he explained patiently.
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Unusuallly, the party was split fifty-fifty on the issue.
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She said: ‘It's still fifty-fifty whether he will pull through but we are doing our best for him.’
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‘I'm more confident because it is a playoff,’ he said, adding the odds were fifty-fifty.
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You know - maybe not in words or objective thoughts - but you know that it's not a fifty-fifty proposition, crossing this street right now.
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Keane, being a realist, recognises those facts, but insists that the game is very much fifty-fifty.
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From a near fifty-fifty split on the devolution proposals in 1979 the referendum in 1997 provided a three to one majority for the Parliament and a clear majority for giving it tax powers.
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The operation has a fifty-fifty chance of success.
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I used to repeat to myself that I'd be successful on the way to auditions, and my batting average was only fifty-fifty.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
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If you measure a successful relationship at fifty-fifty, I'd say we're more like ninety-ten.
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The theory of autocracy is that power originated at the top; a mythical being known as "Gott" delegated to some favorite, who may be a wise man or a fool-it is about fifty-fifty in history-delegated to this favorite autocratic power, and this gentlemen spreads his power out upon a chosen few, and he and his associates rest squarely upon the masses of men, exploiting the mass of men for and in the interest of the few.
Democracy or Bolshevism
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This result may provide some support not that fifty-fifty divisions are unfavorable for democracy, but that more fragmentation leads to less democracy.
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The Exec is roughly split fifty-fifty down the middle, with everything from classical liberals to old-style feminists and environmentalists.
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They are unlikely to see fifty-fifty shares in boardrooms or childcare as the measure of fairness in the division of labour.
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The jury is still out; I mean, it's so fifty-fifty.
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They can ask the audience, go fifty-fifty or send smoke signals to their tribal chief for the answers.
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Just before I call the next member, I tell members I have been advised that the next speech is to be shared fifty-fifty.
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Mix baby powder fifty-fifty with blue chalk in your chalk box.
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had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance
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Alas some controversial refereeing decisions saw all the fifty-fifty decisions going the Paisley side's way.
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We'll share it on a fifty-fifty basis .
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If you don't know anything about probability theory, particularly expectations, you probably say to yourself, the odds are fifty-fifty that you have chosen the larger sum, so you may as well stick with your first choice.
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When the Governor spoke today he said well, it's a fifty-fifty call now whether interest rates rise or whether interest rates fall, and I think that characterises the view of the Reserve Bank.
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So after having a fifty-fifty shot on which track might be more fun to play, I proceed to choose one of three game modes.
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The gamesmanship has also started with both teams claiming the coveted tag of underdogs, but for Frampton, the fact that Lismore and themselves have made the final means that it's fifty-fifty.
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We'll divide the profit fifty-fifty.
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Well, it was almost a fifty-fifty chance right?
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When the skin is so dry that it tends to flake, the best carrier seems to be a fifty-fifty blend of sweet almond and corn oil with 10 per cent of organic wheatgerm oil to provide more of the revitalizing and restorative vitamin E.
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After returning from the 1960 Summer Games, he signed an unprecedented fifty-fifty split contract turning him into a professional boxer
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The operation has a fifty-fifty chance of success.
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You can phone a friend, you can go fifty-fifty or you can ask the audience.
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it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split
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‘They still think they're in the majority but there is a bare majority; it's nearly fifty-fifty now,’ he said.
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The proceeds of the sale are split fifty-fifty.
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If I am correct in stating the member's position, then she believes that fifty-fifty time should be the fall-back position if something else cannot be sorted out.
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Well, it was a fifty-fifty chance of getting it right.
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The proceeds of the sale are split fifty-fifty.
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The new firm was owned on a fifty-fifty basis by the two parent companies.
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If I had, I'd say there would have been a fifty-fifty chance of me turning up.
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Common sense and other information tells me that this race is actually dead-even, fifty-fifty.
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According to the doctors, I initially had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving which is pretty serious, but even they were amazed at how quickly I began to recover.
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Put another way, it is fair to view a couple with dependent children as forming a fifty-fifty partnership, which has the essential goal of giving their children the best possible start in life.
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I'd give it a fifty-fifty chance, probably less.
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There should be no fifty-fifty deal, because, quite clearly, all the people of New Zealand benefit from our exports and the revenue generated from them.
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China also agreed to allow foreign insurance brokers to choose their own partners and secure legal guarantees of freedom from any regulatory interference in privately negotiated contracts on a fifty-fifty equity basis.
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Of course, over time, you expect that that levels out and we are now at the period where hopefully the coverage will be fifty-fifty and we get on with the election campaign.
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There is good news in that the numbers continue to improve, and there's every reason to believe we will eventually reach essentially fifty-fifty numbers of men and women in the field.
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The new firm was owned on a fifty-fifty basis by the two parent companies.
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Besides, we'll be splitting the cost of the paintings fifty-fifty.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Our aim is fifty-fifty representation - total gender balance in the system.
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I am optimistic - I think we have a fifty-fifty chance to be here, to survive.
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And at the end of the meeting he said; ‘that's the best twenty minute pitch I've ever seen’ but I also think I might have scared him, too, so it's fifty-fifty whether I'd be called back.
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Given past encounters it's a fifty-fifty draw that they either are willing to help us or kill us.
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There is a fifty-fifty chance that we changed the outcome.
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I took my green die from my vest pocket and gave it a fifty-fifty chance that I would create such an institute.
THE DICE MAN
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There's only a fifty-fifty chance that she'll survive the operation.
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I believe that couples should be able to split their incomes fifty-fifty for taxation purposes.
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If I work with a friend, we usually split the extra income fifty-fifty.
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Costs are to be shared on a fifty-fifty basis between the government and local businesses.
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The birds... fifty-fifty, though some of them could roost OK.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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The leadership was more like fifty-fifty: four of the nine hanged after Castle Hill were Protestants.
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My family spent their lives in fear of pissing off God and gentiles, and they split their time in each pursuit about fifty-fifty.
Roseanne Archy
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The new firm was owned on a fifty-fifty basis by the two parent companies.
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The companies split the profits fifty-fifty.
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We went fifty-fifty on the meal.
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In the first three months of the new year, she was in what I call the fifty-fifty zone.
True You
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He gave the show a fifty-fifty chance of survival.
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To compound the inequity, there is a risk in a fifty-fifty custody arrangement that the mother will no longer be seen as the primary caregiver, and may completely lose her entitlement to a sole parent rate of benefit.
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With only two, it's a fifty-fifty split that one or the other is wrong.
CHAPTER XII
