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Discover LudwigThe phrase "half as far" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to compare how much distance something has gone or needs to go relative to another thing. For example, "The car drove half as far as the truck."
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This race is half as far again.
A woman has to be twice as good as a man, to go half as far.
Half, as far as I can make out, are in my attic.
Not half as far into the past, though, as the frisking lemurs had taken her.
"You have to be twice as good to get half as far".
"You've got to work twice as hard to get half as far".
When Achilles has run one mile, the tortoise will have run half as far again that is, half a mile.
"As a black person, unfortunately you have to work twice as hard to get half as far.
(A typical natural gas car goes half as far on a full tank as a gasoline car).
And we knew that no grand theory would guide us through these uncharted waters.Indeed, had we listened to theory, we would not have come half as far.
Then the superlatives will no longer be needed – when women won't need to be twice as good as a man, in order to go half as far.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com