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The phrase "a half a block" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a distance, typically in urban settings, indicating that something is located halfway between two blocks.
Example: "The coffee shop is just a half a block away from the library."
Alternatives: "half a block" or "one block down."
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The force of the stream sent looters skipping as far as a half a block.
Watching from a street corner a half a block away was Ms. Gagliardi.
She ended up about a half a block away, in front of a florist shop at McGraw Avenue and White Plains Road.
In recent days, the police have tightened restrictions to keep the protesters at least a half a block away from the mayor.
Two city properties are owned by Mr. Gross and his family, a Courtyard by Marriott a half a block west on 39th Street and another near Kennedy Airport.
In January of last year, the couple, who now have a 6-month-old son, bought a two-bedroom co-op a half a block from Sunset Park for less than $300,000.
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The owner, who preferred to stay anonymous, resides on San Francisco's Valencia St., the super-hip drag that has become the dividing line between the poverty-stricken Mission St .just a half-a-block East.
Grabbed my keys, inserted my in-ear headphones, and didn't walk a half-a-block before the flat-screen adverts signaled me to the L-train entrance staircases.
They found an empty garage half a block away.
I was half a block from a subway station.
He landed in a tree half a block away, lucky to be alive.
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