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Example sentences for "half years"

  • There are two groups of teachings on prayer in those three and a half years as given by the gospel records.

  • For three and a half years He was a prophet speaking to men for God.

  • Those three and a half years of Jesus' public work is the period of greatest Satanic and demoniac activity of which any record has been made.

  • This is plainly marked as being painted when he was four and a half years old, and with the date 1670.

  • Three seasons, including the passages and two "between seasons," will require three and a half years.

  • Soon after his arrival in New Bedford he shipped again, and is now on another cruise of three and a half years.

  • Two seasons at the north, including the passages outward and home, and one "between seasons," require two and a half years.

  • All that can be said is that it is perfectly impossible for us to identify or exactly equiparate the three and a half years (vii.

  • Is not a loss such as this, in so short a time as two and a half years, a serious matter?

  • Chamberlain, South Dakota, but one and a half years sufficed at this place.

  • This treatise having been seen by a member of the university faculty, Linnæus was invited to fill a temporary vacancy, and lectured with great success therein one and a half years.

  • I ended up my four and a half years as a parlour-boarder in a semi- convent with a respect for women and their work, which had always been very high, made still higher.

  • Four and a half years is a long time to be out of one's house.

  • Later, I must say something of the adventure of living continuously for four and a half years in a hospital.

  • I lived for four and a half years in a community of women-the only man amongst nine.

  • The dire distresses of his long journey, begun two and a-half years ago, are beyond the reach of language.

  • Brother Rasmussen, though but two and a half years in this country, speaks the Fiot fluently, and preaches in it in the villages contiguous.

  • He has been out two and a half years, and (D.

  • The former has been apprehended in other cities on the charge of procuring, once serving two and a half years in Philadelphia under an assumed name.

  • A child aged three and a half years, who previously had symptoms of mild catarrhal croup, with moderate redness of the fauces, sickened with scarlet fever on Oct.

  • After two and a half years of successful labor here, he accepted a call to the neighboring city of Nashua, a larger and more promising field, which he occupied to good effect.

  • His illness extended over a period of three and a half years, and was very painful; but he never lost his faith and courage.

  • During Mr. Sawyer's subsequent pastorate of thirteen and a half years, other controversies followed.

  • The period of redemption is reduced from sixty-eight and a half years to sixty-five and a half years.

  • The average price of land sold rose from the seventeen and a half years' purchase under the old Acts to over twenty years' purchase, and the soil of Ireland rapidly began to change hands.

  • This reduction involved an extension of the period of redemption from forty-nine to sixty-eight and a half years.

  • She promised me two and a half years ago, promised so I would promise her not to write to you.

  • You're a great big girl, nearly six and a half years old, and you have to learn to work to earn your board and keep.

  • Three words which had broken the silence of two and a half years.

  • The line which joins these two points, or the line of the nodes, is also said to have a retrograde motion, or to revolve from east to west once in eighteen and a half years.

  • Their times of revolution around the sun are nearly equal, averaging about four and a half years.

  • The moon's nodes constantly shift their positions in the ecliptic, from east to west, at the rate of about nineteen and a half degrees every year, returning to the same points once in eighteen and a half years.

  • At its appearance in 1770, its orbit was found to be an ellipse, requiring for a complete revolution only five and a half years; and the wonder was, that it had not been seen before, since it was a very large and bright comet.

  • The consequence was, that the comet's orbit was changed into a smaller ellipse, in which its revolution was accomplished in five and a half years.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half years" 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:
    each sheet; for the; half acres; half afraid; half aloud; half asleep; half centuries; half company; half cups; half days; half degrees; half dollar; half dozen; half gallon; half length; half million; half ounce; half ounces; half pounds; half slave and half; half tablespoon; half whisper; half wide; hereditary disease; sacred grove; should get