Sentence examples for half a way from inspiring English sources

The phrase "half a way" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly when someone means to say "halfway."
Example: "We are only halfway to our destination."
Alternatives: "partway" or "in the middle."

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"It's half a skill set, half a way of life," says John Sekevitch.

This is the first bacterium that has been proven by culture independent approaches to be prevalent in hypersaline habitats of intermediate salinity (half a way between the sea and NaCl saturation).

In a large metagenomic study carried out in a solar saltern in which different salinities were studied by direct 454 pyrosequencing [ 12], it came as no surprise when in intermediate salinities (19%, about half a way between seawater salinity, 3.5% and saturation, 37%) the classical moderately halophilic bacteria such as Salinivibrio or Halomonas[ 16] turned out to be nearly absent.

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Hopefully there's a half way house somewhere".

Wheeled type caliper is a half way pig between utility and intelligent pig.

However Lord Brittan's brother Sir Samuel Brittan dismissed Mr Watson's words as "a half way apology".

There is a half way point again to be reached between p0 and p4.

Dr. Thomas described a "half way technology" (1 ); "at the same time highly sophisticated and profoundly primitive".

There are half a dozen ways to cheat in this market.

No problem – there are half a dozen ways to get it done.

For scoring, an entry half way into an arm was defined as an arm entry.

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