Sentence examples similar to half acceptable from inspiring English sources

I guess they were a half-acceptable middle-ground between infancy and motherhood – a sufficient way to satisfy that need little girls have for looking after children – but someone's finally come up with a way to skip out that delicious-smelling middleman (and puberty, sex, pregnancy and childbirth) by releasing a doll that will suckle directly at the (stick-on) nipple of your child.

If the participant believes that an experimental item is half as acceptable as the standard, he or she would assign it a value of 50.

"I think the players understood what they did in the first half was not acceptable.

Errors in age were below half of the acceptable error rate of 5%, and were as low as 1% during the last three years of the study period.

Although our diffraction data have a limited real-space resolution, the data are by no means of poor or low quality: there are 30 000 counts in the highest peak, the zero-point error is less than 0.04° 2θ, the full width at half maximum is acceptable (certainly for an organic pigment), the background is flat and there is no preferred orientation.

Aside from being easy to administer, score and interpret, the PDSS has high internal consistency of at least 0.80 in split-half samples and acceptable factor loadings (> 0.4) [ 34].

The FAD-GFS has acceptable split-half reliability (Guttman's split-half reliability r = .83) on a large sample of Ontario families [ 27], adequate concurrent validity [ 24, 26] and discriminate validity [ 28].

The food at the Rainbow Grill is Italian, very simple and perfectly acceptable at half the price.

Aides to the governor said he has worked for a year and a half to find an acceptable compromise.

But a combination of Veronica "Goebbels Knew Nothing" Wadley and Lynton "Say Nothing" Crosby has made this clown acceptable to half of London.

Mr. Bleakley estimates that Allied's interest coverage, a measure of a company's ability to pay its debt, would be cut in half and fall below acceptable levels should it bid for the entire Seagram portfolio.