Sentence examples for said a half from inspiring English sources

"Now, I can write a letter," he said, "a half a page".

Eric Newman, vice president for sales at Organic Valley, a farmers' cooperative that sells mostly dairy products, said a half gallon of milk cost $3.49, on average, in 2007 while a gallon cost about $6.

"Do you have a party at work?" "Maybe," she said, a half smile on her face.

"Emily, are you awake?" he said a half hour later, crawling under the curtain.

He said "a half-dozen" were confirmed killed.

"Last time we used a rubber," he eventually said, a half-smile on his contemptuous lips.

In the Mojave, Mr. Nosala said, a half-dozen races are held each year.

"It was extremely hard," he said, a half-hour before the restaurant's doors opened.

"This is the first year I have ever felt old," Roddick said, a half-truth spoken in jest.

Last time, he said, a half-dozen women at the plant embraced him; it is for them, the employees, that he is doing this.

The Fed minutes said a half-point increase would help avert a rise in inflation expectations, which in the view of some members were worsening.