Sentence examples for a half of rain from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a half of rain" is not correct and not commonly used in written English
You might use it in a context where you are trying to describe a specific quantity of rain, but it would be more natural to say "half an inch of rain" or "half a cup of rain." Example: "After the storm, we measured a half of rain in the gauge, which was surprising for such a short downpour."
As much as an inch and a half of rain was forecast.
Nearly an inch and a half of rain fell in an hour.
In June, her farm in northern Iowa got an inch and a half of rain.
"We had an inch and a half of rain last night," he said, "so we might see a second flush".
In Manhattan, an inch and a half of rain had fallen in Central Park by last evening.
After an inch and a half of rain fell in the area, with the plant diverting as much water as it could, water rose 20 inches.
These struggles are reflected in some of his manuscripts: he made his own paper, if it can be called that, by scraping layers of birch bark, and his own ink by "a mix of bruised nut galls, green copper, and stone blue soaked in a pint and a half of rain-water" — and he was doing this after the supposed breakthrough success of his first book, "Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery," in 1820.
A spokesman for the agency said some parts of the area had an inch-and-a-half of rain in less than two hours.
The unusually dry spell began during the southern hemisphere's summer late last year, when São Paulo state received roughly one third to a half of the rain it normally gets.
After an hour and a half of trudging through rain and mud, he headed back to his car.
Those two words were particularly sobering in a place that just experienced nearly one and a half inches of rain — 40 percent of its monthly average — in a 24-hour period.
