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Example sentences for "half times"

  • Or the diameter of the average star may be five or ten times that of the sun, instead of only two and one-half times as great.

  • This would give an average diameter about two and a half times that of the sun.

  • If the average visible star is somewhat cooler than the sun and has a radius about two and one-half times as great, as appears to be the fact, the chances rise to one in thirty-eight million years.

  • They are much heavier than newspapers, and contain a much higher proportion of advertising to reading matter, and the average distance of their transportation is three and a half times as great.

  • Six per cent in gold would at present rates be equal to 9 per cent in currency, and equivalent to the payment of the debt one and a half times in a fraction less than seventeen years.

  • Railroad building, in fact, increased about two and one-half times as fast as population.

  • It has been estimated that we forward two and a half times as much freight per capita as some of the leading European countries like France.

  • Frontal ring kidney-shaped, one and a half times as broad as high, with a slight sagittal constriction.

  • Apical spine with twelve verticils, one and a half times as long as the three basal spines, each of which bears eight verticils of three branches.

  • Central capsule ovate, one and a half times as long as broad.

  • The summit of the Mont Cenis Pass is sixteen and a half times higher.

  • Now it is found that from the first to the sixth magnitude the stars increase in number at the rate of about three and a half times those of the preceding magnitudes.

  • The wheat and oat crops have increased about six and one-half times in 50 years, the hay crop five and one-half times, while maize has increased four and one-half times.

  • Length of tail six and a half to seven and a half times in total length in males, seven and a half to nine times in females.

  • Length of tail six to nine and a half times in the total length in males, eight to eleven times in females.

  • Tail five and a half to six and a half times in the total length.

  • Tail four to six and a half times in the total length.

  • Baled hops moved at one and one-half times first-class on the Central Pacific.

  • You should work this up to three and one-half times a year.

  • According to the census of 1897, in the Jewish population ten years of age or over there were relatively one and a half times as many literates as in the total population of the corresponding group.

  • As masters and workmen they play a part in Roumanian large-scale and small-scale industry nearly four and a half times as large as their proportion in the total population.

  • Poecilisma Kaempferi, (magnified two and a half times.

  • Scalpellum rutilum, (magnified two and a half times).

  • Poecilisma aurantia, (magnified two and a half times.

  • The palpi of both sexes are over one and a half times as long as the cephalothorax, and in the males sometimes twice as long (fig.

  • It is a fifth to a quarter of an inch long, with the longest legs one and one-half times as long as the body.

  • The cephalothorax is one and a half times as long as wide, widest behind and narrow in front (fig.

  • It will be seen, however, that the number speaking German has multiplied nearly threefold and the number of those speaking English six and a half times in the century under review.

  • At the end of the nineteenth century the number was two and a half times as great as at the end of the previous eighteen centuries.

  • This genus of large herons is distinguished by having the claws very long; hind toe contains its claw one and two-thirds times; tarsus contains the hind toe with claw one and one-half times.

  • Second primary less than two and one-half times, and usually less than twice, the first primary in length.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half times" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being informed; good estate; half after; half amused; half asleep; half centuries; half dozen; half fathoms; half inch; half inclined; half knots; half leagues; half length; half long; half mile; half minute; half pint; half pound; half slave and half; half tablespoon; half teaspoonful; hasty meal; lunatic asylums; middle course; that portion; third century