The phrase "a half debate" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used to describe a discussion that is incomplete or lacks full engagement from participants.
Example: "The meeting turned into a half debate, with only a few members actively participating in the discussion."
Alternatives: "an incomplete discussion" or "a partial debate".
The hour and a half debate was just like the last month with Palin: good at the outset, then, holy crap, she really doesn't know her stuff.
LeRoy McCarthy, who proposed that the corner of Rivington and Ludlow Streets in the Lower East Side be co-named "Beastie Boy Square," presented the proposition that lead to nearly an hour and a half debate.
But during the hour-and-a-half debate, some sparks flew.
The issue has not been a focus during previous mayoral panels, so Mr. Sharpton decided to ask the five candidates for a simple yes-or-no answer, during a rousing hour-and-a-half debate at his National Action Network headquarters in Harlem.
21 times during an hour-and-a-half debate.
In an hour-and-a-half debate on an economy still shell-shocked by the housing crisis, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's sole critique of President Barack Obama's policy was that regulators are taking too long to write new mortgage guidelines, and that this is holding back a full recovery of the market.
He spent a week and a half debating the point with the director before conceding that he was "just being a prick about it".
When I was in the studio, the pair sat down with Soren Wheeler, a producer, and spent an hour and a half debating various phrasings and cuts, mostly focusing on three or four passages.
The count of 4,000 ballots, about 1percentt of the county's total, began this afternoon after officials spent nearly an hour and a half debating the procedures they would use.
Related: Miliband: I won't have Labour government if it means SNP deal Aside from one and a half debates, stage-managed to the point of absolute stiltedness, the party leaders have shown such a terminal unwillingness to be seen in each other's company that I've started to develop three key theories about them.
Though many of the amendments have passed with a simple voice vote, the committee spent more than an hour and a half debating the first amendment on its agenda Wednesday: a proposal by Florida Republican Cliff Stearns that sought to allow states to count energy from new nuclear plants toward their renewable energy quotas.
