How to Use half as big/much/good as in a Sentence

half as big/much/good as

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  • That may be expected for something that costs half as much as those others, too.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • Women earned about half as much as a man doing the same job and were seldom promoted.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Britain’s offices are being used half as much as before the pandemic.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Preseason games cost about half as much as regular-season games.
    — Richard Ryman, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • On average, our stocks over the past month have declined about half as much as their respective benchmarks.
    — John Dobosz, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • By comparison, Zara’s emissions rose half as much as its revenue.
    — Sachi Mulkey, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Which means, speaking broadly, marketers valued new-media time only half as much as old-media time.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
  • This is despite the fact that the growing high income class is still less than half as big as the middle class in America.
    — Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The battery life is roughly half as good as the Hero13, and that’s being generous.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The company pays workers in Cambodia half as much as its workers in Yangjiang.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • New Horizons weighs about half as much as Voyager 1, and in real dollars costs roughly one-third as much.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2015
  • Child care is a significant expense for many families, often costing at least half as much as their housing.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 22 May 2024
  • And if Major Kidd could give the kids a pep talk half as good as Rosie, these greenhorns might sleep a little easier.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Then again, Turkey’s baristas make an average $2,600, about half as much as a lawyer in that country.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
  • When fertilizing potted citrus and avocado, use half as much as the label recommends for the same size plant in the ground.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The rise equates to about half as much as the deposit decline at small banks, suggesting some of the cash may have gone into money market funds or other instruments.
    — Reuters, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • While some stayed in their home countries, other settled in France; none of them received a pension more than half as big as their French comrades in arms.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The game could exceed the estimates of around 3 million units sold that some analysts have penciled in and still end up roughly half as big as Madden.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • Analysts estimate Azure, which was about half as big as Amazon Web Services five years ago, is now three-quarters its size.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • Latina, Black and Native American mothers who worked full time earned about half as much as the white, non-Hispanic fathers.
    — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Overall, the data fits with the observation that athletes who keep training at a fairly constant level over the years lose about 5 percent per decade—half as much as the typical nonathlete.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The same applies to grips; there are inexpensive lock-on models, like Bontrager’s $19 XR Comp grips, that cost half as much as others.
    — Mike Levy, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The price difference is about $120, but the brand also compares itself to Cozy Earth and Ettitude, two brands with sheets that cost nearly half as much as Quince’s.
    — Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Subways bring in far less money than other chain restaurants—on average, about half as much as a Jimmy John’s location and about 14 percent of what a McDonald’s makes in a year.
    — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
  • The shredder utilizes 116 large and small spikes (almost over half as much as similar shredders on the market) composed of solid BPA-free plastic and nestled in a slip-proof silicone base.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 31 July 2023

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