In the first place, instead of twenty-nine and a half days, all these changes occur in one lunar day and night.
The time which intervenes between one new moon and another is called a synodical month, and consists of nearly twenty-nine and a half days.
In three cases Murchison believes that the incubation was precisely fixed at thirty-six hours, three days, and four and a half days.
The whole fastigium lasts from one and a half to two {567} and a half days, so that the complete eruptive fever occupies from three to four and one-half days.
Of these eighteen and one-half days, however, eighteen days were in quiet sectors and only one-half of one day in each hundred was in active sectors.
Chapter III - Concerning the promise of the great five and a half days.
But when Adam heard these words from God, and of the great five and a half days, he did not understand the meaning of them.
And the Lord said to Adam, "I told you that at the end of the five and a half days, I will send my Word and save you.
The two oceans are now only three and a half days apart by rail.
He is as pleased as a child with a new toy when some speed record is broken, when a pair of shoes is made in eleven minutes, when a man lays twelve hundred bricks in an hour, or when a ship crosses the Atlantic in four and a half days.
And it is as much a world's wonder, to men and women of imagination, as the steel mills of Homestead or the turbine leviathans that curve across the Atlantic Ocean in four and a half days.
It was decided to hold three days of this and to use one and a half days food as a bonus during the coming week, as long as we were ahead of our necessary distance.
This seems to mean from Cugui to Kelinfu six days, and thence to Vuguen (or Unken) three and a half days more.
A party which recently made the journey seem to have been six days from Hokeu to the Wu-e-shan and then five and a half days by water (but in stormy weather) to Fu-chau.
Now, since it was two and a half days' journey up the river, it would take them months to force their way through the jungle to the south.
In consequence, they reached the Creek in four and a half days.
During that voyage, which occupied two and a half days, they passed a mangrove swamp upon the southern bank, which the Fan chief pointed out as the place where the Hidden River joined the Kasai.
In 1909, however, the sister steamships Mauretania and Lusitania of the Cunard line lowered all previous ocean records, by making the trip in a little over four and a half days.
She covered the passage from Liverpool to Boston in fourteen and one-half days, which was then regarded as a marvellous feat and one which was proclaimed throughout England with triumph.
For a long time the Britannia remained Queen of the Seas for speed, but in 1852 the Atlantic record was reduced to nine and a half days by the Arctic.
This was our last evening ashore, as we were to heave anchor at midnight on Tuesday, 17th August, and in four and a half days we were, if all went well, to find ourselves back in Scotland.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half days" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
