Sentence examples for a half really from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a half really" is not standard or commonly used in written English.
It may be used in informal contexts to express a degree of uncertainty or to emphasize a partial quantity, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "I thought I had finished the project, but it turns out I only did a half really."
Alternatives: "partially" or "somewhat".

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Though a strapping five-nine today — closer to five-nine and a half, really — in the prepubescent days of my love affair with sports I was a shrimp.

Well, two and a half, really.

"I'd have six and a half really good days eating-wise and on a Saturday afternoon I could have a pizza.

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In particular, he looked at a Rolling Stone interview where "he speaks for an hour-and-a-half, really opening up and saying what he felt, that the Beatles was a front.

We've already seen two — well, one-and-a-half, really.

They're just not the best lungs (lung-and-a-half, really), so I quit smoking on Halloween 1988, and I have several slip dreams a week.

It doesn't sound that little, but when you're living in the cheapest single-room accommodation your university has to offer - at £114 a week - three-and-a-half grand really doesn't stretch very far.

We played a quarter and a half and really were playing pretty well and then Chappell gets hurt.

"It took us about a year and a half to really scrub the business case," said Allan McArtor, chief executive of Airbus's operations in North America.

And I thought it was so pleasant — in an hour and a half, you really have a portrait of the person, the time, and the reaction to the person.

Given the Federal Reserve's continuing effort to keep rates down, and barring unexpectedly fast economic growth, he said, "it feels like we're in an environment for the next year, year and a half of really low rates".

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