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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a half a day" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression is "half a day."
Example: "I will need half a day to complete the project."
Alternatives: "a half day" or "half a day's time."
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"Sometimes on tour, I have just a half a day here, a half a day there," he explained.
When I'm here I exercise for an hour and a half a day.
His father, who smoked a pack and a half a day, died from lung disease a few years ago.
"If you're spending an hour and a half a day on Georgia 400, eventually that will wear you out".
Nancy Fanelli, a 47-year-old teacher who has been smoking a pack and a half a day for many years, offered this: "I stopped last week.
He took Bulgarian language lessons for an hour and a half a day for three weeks, said his instructor, the Rev. Petar Kjossov, to make himself understood.
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"I am now an hour-and-a-half-a-day bicycler, weight lifter.
"I'm on a pack-and-a-half a day at the moment," he says, as he ducks out of an airless, windowless rehearsal room that smells, in the opinion of the Observer's photographer, "of actor".
She spends between 20 minutes and an hour-and-a-half a day listening to them in her car, or doing chores around her home in Tennessee.
I must write a half a dozen a day.
The POA service includes 3 dedicated anaesthetic clinics a week, lasting half-a-day.
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