The phrase "a good half year" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of six months that has been positive or beneficial in some way.
Example: "Over the past year, I've had a good half year filled with personal growth and new opportunities."
Alternatives: "a solid six months" or "a productive half year".
Chief executive Sebastian James said: This has been a very good half year but there is a lot more of the year to go and a crucial Christmas to come, against a backdrop of big changes in how and when customers do their Christmas shopping.
Couples, and brides in particular, tend to sign up a good half a year or more before their big day and begin documenting other wedding-related events, like fittings, shopping trips, showers, and other pre-wedding parties.
People have felt the bite on their wallet for a good half a year now if not more, and in case Piers didn't hear, Nintendo sold two million Wiis in November.
From earliest times, of course, Yale's graduates had heard the call to religious service: in the first forty years a good half of them became ministers, and in this calling served also the intellectual interests of New England.
Most companies with an export bias are reporting good half-year figures (as are many consumer businesses that would normally suffer in a downturn).
It took me a good half-a-dozen or so years to believe what I saw when I came here, to unlearn all the assumptions & impressions that were formed in my childhood years.
Wong et al. [ 44] carried out a longitudinal study to show that PTT-based blood pressure estimation had a good performance within half year but the estimation accuracy went worse for longer time.
With apologies to Car Talk, you've squandered a perfectly good half-of-a-year watching "Why Is This News?" and we decided to reward you with a show that actually contains business analysis, rather than a rant about hotels or the hijinks of Michael Arrington.
Chairman Richard Harvey added: "The group has delivered a good result for the half year with growth in both revenue and profitability".
