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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a half off" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression is "half off" or "50% off," which is used to indicate a discount on a price.
Example: "This weekend, all shoes are half off at the store."
Alternatives: "50% discount" or "half price."
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"I don't know if that's quite fair after taking a year and a half off, but that's what I know".
The top men will take a month and a half off before they arrive in the U.S. for the spring's two biggest tournaments: Indian Wells and Miami.
"And even though we've had a day and a half off, we all went home, with the game still playing in our minds.
"There are no guarantees when a guy's 39 years old, and he's taken a year and a half off," Girardi said.
Now, fresh from a year and a half off, he is leading one of the most promising young teams in the league.
After that he took a year and a half off from his post as artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, Israel's finest.
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A half-off sale at Best Buy couldn't gather this many D.J.s in one space.
It's not the same as a Half-Off Sale, where the store chooses what goods to discount.
In addition, he said, a half-off deal combined with the steep commission taken by the daily deal companies — typically around 40 or 50 percent — would send him into the red on most of the redemptions.
Recently, shoppers on the site were offered a half-off deal on "a strip and a strip" — a dance at the strip club Scores and a steak at its in-house restaurant.
On Wednesday morning, attracted by a half-off sale at a Wild team store in Maplewood, Minn., he endured a two-hour wait to buy a red No. 11 Zach Parise sweater.
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