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The phrase "five and a half" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to either time, distance, age, or a combination of two such measures. For example, "It took us five and a half hours to drive to the beach."
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How about five and a half?
— nearly five and a half hours.
Rod: Five and a half yards.
Five and a half minutes fly by.
So five and a half.
It's been five and a half years.
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Google trades at five-and-a-half times its sales.
Beetlejuice, apparently, is five-and-a-half-per-cent alcohol.
"We sold a house in five-and-a-half months.
A gap of five-and a-half years.
"I wore five-and-a-half-inch heels," she said.
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