一多半甚至不用去领养中心。

Over half never even made it to the adoption center.

为出价额外安装了25部电话，一多半都由汉语流利的接线员负责。

For taking bids, 25 extra telephone lines were installed, more than half of which were manned by fluent Chinese speakers.

一多半的迪拜人口生活在这里，南亚的人们睡在对面是污水的民工窟里。

More than half of Dubai's population lives in workers' camps like this one, where South Asian men sleep in crowded dormitories that open onto standing sewage.