The phrase "a number of half" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, as "half" typically requires a quantifier or context to make sense.
Example: "A number of half measures were taken to address the issue."
Alternatives: "several halves" or "multiple halves".
You get a number of half turns before you get to the straight, which is relatively short.' His other two Arc winners came in 1977 and 1978 on Alleged, a horse whose quality still rings down the ages.
As the match developed Arsenal, though never truly dominant, missed a number of half and three-quarter chances, the best driven just wide by Bergkamp at the start of the second half.
By the early nineteen-seventies, this group, on his father's side of the family, included a number of half brothers who had studied abroad, in places such as Lebanon and England.
The home side created a number of half chances, with Howard Beverland blocking a Gary Liggett shot.
The way the program works is that over a period of about 4 months you attend a number of half day workshop sessions, where experienced people come and talk about various aspects of being a startup.
The project was abandoned when it became clear the base-metal dime would be too large to be effectively struck in the tough copper-nickel alloy, but Longacre prepared a number of half dollar-size patterns.
In Ramallah, local Fatah leaders were said to have refused instructions to stop the stone-throwing, but they did place Palestinian Authority police in a number of half-finished buildings on side streets from which gunmen have fired automatic weapons.
There must be a number of half-finished matinee jackets: which have been pushed back into knitting bags or finished for someone else's baby, for they have not arrived here.
Albion's passing was slick and quick, the key to a number of half-chances that never amounted to anything before appalling set-piece defending gifted Cahill the opening goal after 36 minutes.
"Childhood is filled with a number of half-beliefs," said Stuart A. Vyse, an associate professor of psychology at Connecticut College in New London and the author of "Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition" (Oxford, 1997).
Theresa May dismissed the "citizens of nowhere" but the response to her comments suggests that many people suspect that identity is not much more than a number of half-truths we have told ourselves.
