How to Use and a half in a Sentence

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• Serves one, maybe one and a half.
  — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026
• They were gone a month and a half.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
• And yes, that’s two and a half pairs.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
• Nicholas spent six and a half years in jail.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
• The first episode lasts two and a half hours.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
• And Luz is just four and a half.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025
• In the last decade and a half, the record has tripled.
  — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
• One and a half and one and a half still equals three.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
• Star has grown by leaps and bounds the past decade and a half.
  — Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 30 Mar. 2026
• Why did my husband wait six and a half?
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
• So that’s kind of been the last two and a half years for me.
  — Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• The second phase would take a day and a half.
  — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
• Those guests are there for two and a half to three and a half hours.
  — Demarco Williams, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• And so much work has been done over the last two and a half days.
  — Amanda Castro joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
• Our second one is 2 and a half now.
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
• So the first stage was about two and a half weeks, give or take a day.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Mar. 2026
• The three-alarm fire was put out within an hour and a half.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
• Bake the chicken in the same pan for about an hour and a half.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2025
• And there are but two and a half seasons, no more, no less.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• Much can change with the deadline still three and a half weeks away.
  — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 10 July 2026
• The film spawned eight sequels over the next four and a half decades.
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
• The top-to-bottom makeover took more than two and a half years.
  — Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• On top of that, the two and a half bathrooms didn’t work at all.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 14 May 2024
• She’s lived in an RV for a year and a half.
  — Jeffrey Kopp,kate Rogers, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
• His arrest took place two and a half weeks ago, and the world moves fast.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 June 2024
• The last week and a half has been really good.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
• The inquest opened a day and a half later.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• What a difference a decade and a half makes.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
• Two and a half years is never ideal.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
• 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