halve

Object

• poverty: They include the aim to halve world poverty by 2015.
• proportion: UN's aim is to halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015.
• deficit: Three wins in four games - the most recent against Wednesday -has halved the deficit to five points.
• tomato: Halve the tomatoes and bake them in the oven for about 15 minutes until the skins slide easily from the flesh.
• onion: Firstly, you need to peel and halve a large onion, and then slice into very thin, crescent moon shapes.
• hunger: This is an examination of the feasibility of halving world hunger by 2015.

Preposition: over

• decade: The number of burglaries has halved over the last decade.
• period: Such earnings have halved over the period, Table 13.

Modifying Another Word

• lengthways: Finely shred the cucumber halves lengthways into long thin shreds, using a mandolin.
• lengthwise: Halve lengthwise and scoop out and discard the seeds and fibers.
• roughly: The size would be roughly halved, to 300 to 400 members serving six-year terms.
• almost: The price of the average laptop has almost halved in the last two years.
• nearly: By 1980 the catch nearly halved to 45,000 metric tons.
• approximately: The figures below for December are slightly unrepresentative, as the hit rate was approximately halved during the extended holiday period.

Used with why or when

• when: Theoretically, the dose of protamine sulfate should be halved when one half-life has elapsed since the last LMW heparin dose.

Preposition: in

• decade: The number of accidental deaths among children has halved in the last decade.
• size: Coventry retained the team trophy as the field halved in size between the start and the finish.
• value: The German stock market has halved in value in just six months.
• price: Even goats - which eat anything and are surviving better - have halved in price.

Preposition: of

• poverty: It would also be " extremely challenging " to hit the next stage - a halving of child poverty by 2010.