The phrase "a half test" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a test that is incomplete or only partially conducted.
Example: "Due to time constraints, we only managed to conduct a half test of the new software features."
Alternatives: "partial test" or "incomplete test".
At Chelsea Career and Technical High School in Manhattan, where teachers tried out an algebra exam, Margaret Glendis, the math assistant principal, said she liked what she saw — an hour-and-a-half test with only five multipart problems, each of which got harder in gradual steps.
In three and a half Tests, he accumulated 212 runs at 30.28 and totalled 33 wickets against the Caribbean visitors at a cost of 18.55, when the next best average of any bowler was 33.
Overall, it had been a disappointing tour; Lindwall had been fit for three and a half Tests and managed only seven wickets at 34.14 Lindwall's performance reignited calls for the aging paceman to be axed from the team.
Lindwall had taken 19 wickets at 20.16 in just three and a half Tests for the series, and Australia seemed unlikely to find replacements for their leading strike pair anytime soon; their eventual successors Richie Benaud and Alan Davidson were still to become regular internationals.
Almost 40%% of the studies had no reliability or validity data reported at all, whilst just over a half tested instruments' reliability and/or validity in the sample being observed.
After three-and-a half Tests of near parity, there is now daylight between the two teams.
Two-and-a-half Tests in, it has come to that: not pushing to win, not even battling for a draw, but trying not to lose too badly.
No, he had guaranteed it, saying last week that Big Brown's victory here in the mile-and-a-half Test of the Champion, as the Belmont is known, was a "foregone conclusion".
Why wouldn't the racing gods give horseplayers and horse lovers alike one more bank-busting bomber in the winner's circle of the mile-and-a-half Test of the Champion and introduce another unlikely set of Triple Crown first-timers?
Big Brown still has to negotiate the mile-and-a-half Test of the Champion, as the Belmont is known, but the big bay colt is facing an unaccomplished field — especially if Casino Drive is scratched — before he fulfills his trainer Rick Dutrow's prophecy that victory here was a "foregone conclusion".
Baffert and his jockey, Victor Espinoza, know that a $1 million purse, a $5 million bonus and immortality are on the line at Saturday's mile-and-a-half Test of the Champion, which has tripped up 15 previous Triple Crown wannabes.
