How to Use and a half in a Sentence
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The French Broad should be a foot and a half high, lazy and blue.
—Susanne Paola Antonetta, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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Those guests are there for two and a half to three and a half hours.
—Demarco Williams, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The price of the home, which has three bedrooms and two and a half baths, varies.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
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The film spawned eight sequels over the next four and a half decades.
—Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
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On top of that, the two and a half bathrooms didn’t work at all.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 14 May 2024
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It’s been a long road for Rachel and the Websters over the last two and a half years.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2024
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Three more followed over the next two and a half years.
—Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
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The top-to-bottom makeover took more than two and a half years.
—Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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The most time spent at Number One (two and a half years).
—Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
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So that's a great one, and that's going to run for two and a half hours.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
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It’s almost been a year and a half since you’ve been hired.
—Antonio Morales, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
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The Atlantic Ocean has been running a fever for the past year and a half.
—Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 2 July 2024
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Herbert has spent the last four and a half seasons with the Bears.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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His arrest took place two and a half weeks ago, and the world moves fast.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 June 2024
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Reciting it in front of the jury took five and a half hours.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
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Byers had served with the agency for two and a half years.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2024
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But on Tuesday, there were four and a half pages on the Yankees and a half-page on the Mets.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
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Now the episodes are approaching two and a half, three hours.
—Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
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He was sentenced in June to seven and a half years in prison.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2025
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Mark Wahlberg, who moved to Las Vegas about two and a half years ago, had the idea for all of this.
—Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
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The June 11-12 Fed meeting is still nearly two and a half months away.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
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Yeah, this conflict's been going on for a year and a half now.
—CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
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Josh Allen and starters will also play about a quarter and a half.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
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But the show also took two and a half years to make, and more episodes means more money spent.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
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The Dow dropped about 400 points (around 1%) and the Nasdaq dropped again after its worst day in two and a half years.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
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Counties have three years to submit their plans for capturing methane and another year and a half to implement them.
—Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
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An end to the six-week war—and a half century of enmity—was never going to be resolved in a single day.
—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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But over the past year and a half, two high-volume and highly contentious drive-thrus made their way to the City Council.
—Rose Evans april 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Apr. 2026
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Denver and Toronto combined to shoot a whopping 6 for 33 in the last eight and a half minutes.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
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The study, now about two and a half years in, will run a minimum of four years.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
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