How to Use and a half in a Sentence

and a half

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  • More than a decade and a half later, this sounds like one of the last gasps of the monoculture.
    — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 5 July 2026
  • Amazingly, it's only been about a year and a half since the troupe last hit the list with a new song.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The film is nearly three and a half hours long, featuring 45 songs.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 8 July 2026
  • Campos, who hadn’t done any goalkeeper training for a year and a half, baulked.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Just three and a half hours south of Dallas lies Houston, Texas’ largest city.
    — Carinne Geil Botta, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The group were stranded for around three and a half hours before being rescued, the news agency noted.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Hundreds of supporters gathered to cheer her arrival after nearly a month and a half at sea.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • But for another two and a half years, it’s stuck with a boss who often seems oblivious to customer concerns.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • For a decade and a half, Mantilla ordered a few hundred every couple of months.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
  • In March, 2025, she was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison.
    — Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2026
  • Two and a half years in, our platform is solid because the strategy was built together and the culture is aligned.
    — John Speranza, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The decision won’t impact games that have already been released, or those planned for release in the next year and a half, Sony said.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Mullins also recommends rehydrating every hour or hour and a half.
    — Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 July 2026
  • The replacement joint was successfully installed four and a half hours into the spacewalk.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • As we’ve all been reminded over the last year and a half, many in this country are determined to see equality’s triumphs reversed.
    — Brian Delay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • The item was carefully taken down and unwrapped, revealing 13 vast swaths of red and white fabric, each nearly a foot and a half wide.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • About a year and a half ago, the 33-year-old, who lives in Indiana, was diagnosed with HIV.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • Central Time on Thursday, an hour and a half before Algeria’s match against Switzerland.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
  • As the veteran free-agent addition struggled through the first month and a half of the season, Rays fans shared their frustration over his lack of production.
    — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2026
  • Many who invested in those cryptocurrencies — not to mention bitcoin itself, crypto’s largest asset — have not been as fortunate in the past year and a half.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 2 July 2026
  • Five and a half hours after beginning the spacewalk, Williams and Meir were able to reattach the LEE cluster as planned.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Over the past decade and a half, Republicans have thrown away winnable Senate seat after winnable Senate seat by bad candidate choices.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • And what ensues is an hour and a half of aimless, frictionless, inert, and cloying sentimentality without purpose.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
  • The satellite has orbited Earth about once every hour and a half for more than two decades, and over time, friction with particles in the upper atmosphere has caused its orbit to decay.
    — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
  • For the next millennium and a half, claims about equality proved remarkably consistent with sexism and slavery, as well as monarchy and universal empire.
    — Teresa M. Bejan, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
  • My Chemical Romance has not released a new album in more than a decade and a half, but amazingly, tickets to see the rock outfit perform live remains in demand.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Bazzana, Smith and Parker Messick will represent the Guardians in Philadelphia in a week and a half.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Paraguay seemed to fade after the Mbappé goal, but turned it on again late, forcing Mike Maignan to make his first save of the day about 89 and a half minutes into the match.
    — Matt Reigle, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • For Banascoe, who has lived in the United States for about a year and a half, Kansas City became the latest stop in a journey across the country.
    — Latif Love july 4, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
  • That distinction helps explain why the lawyers who were signers of the Declaration of Independence who were lawyers still matter two and a half centuries later.
    — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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