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The phrase "half children" can be correct and usable in written English, but it would depend on the context in which it is used.
Generally, this phrase is not commonly used in everyday speech or writing. One possible example could be: "The group consisted of half adults and half children." In this sentence, "half children" is used to describe a specific portion or percentage of the group, indicating that about half of the group were children.
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He also has "two and a half children".
But more than a million and a half children were expected to lose coverage in the next few weeks.
Now about a million and a half children, as many as two-thirds of whom are thought to be evangelicals, are taught at home.
There are two million Ugandans with H.I.V. and two million already dead, leaving more than a million and a half children without parents.
As of early June, the shelter had housed a total of 105 people, roughly half children and half adults, with slightly more women than men.
As of last year, 45% of all Iraqis were 14 or younger, and one could reasonably estimate that there are now about a million and a half children in the city.
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He pays her $20,000 a month, of which roughly half is alimony and half child support.
These natives are not sullen half-men and half-children.
That half-children, half-adult buffer before the news".
Well, the halfway house is the luk kreung" -- a Thai phrase meaning "half-children".
Suddenly a half-child more or half-child less becomes of existential importance.
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