fifty-fifty
Example Sentences
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Squid born in early July had a fifty-fifty chance of using either tactic.
From Science Daily
He said there is “a fifty-fifty chance for missionary Baek’s release as Russia won’t give up relations with South Korea completely.”
From Seattle Times
There's a fifty-fifty chance over the next five years that we'll go over this important marker of temperature increases, compared to pre-industrial times.
From BBC
Farmer sympathized with the needs of the Ministry of Health, but he still hoped that the loan could be divided fifty-fifty.
From Literature
The secretary general, he said, had improved the gender balance in leadership roles: "We now have basically fifty-fifty parity of male and females at senior levels and of the secretary general's representatives in the field."
From BBC
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