Sentence examples for half so good from inspiring English sources

Phlebas, the drowned Phoenician sailor, would not have made half so good a subject for The Waste Land had he managed to swim back to land.

Then there's the very thorough education in nuclear sub procedures – or director Tony Scott's version of it – that we're given in the early stages of the film, without which the big scene wouldn't be half so good.

First half good, second half not so good.

For so long this had looked like being Arsène Wenger's nightmare: first half good; second half not so good.

Too often Sven Goran Eriksson would begin his review of England performances with the phrase, "First half good, second half not so good".

To adapt a Sven-Goran Eriksson phrase, the Italian's time at the helm could be summed up thus - first half good, second half not so good.

"First half good, second half not so good," he sagely pronounced, justifying every penny of his £3m after-tax pay packet.

I met half a dozen artists in that time, half of them good, half not so good, very cartoony styles, which didn't really work at all with what I was writing.

"The second half was extremely good, the first half was not so good.

Mr. Boyer, a fan of Ms. Brown, said, "There was an awful lot of frustration on the part of the young beasties who were so good, half a dozen really good writers and reporters who weren't making it into the magazine, and that was a mistake".

Some of our players who were excellent in the first half weren't quite so good in the second half.