Below you will find example sentences with "half years". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Half Years in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: half
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.1 words

Words in this phrase

half years

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • half can mean: One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided. Common word
  • years can mean: plural of year. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and a half years 5× and a half years in jail 3× and a half years without a 2× 4 and half years and isaac 1× and a half years ago 1× and a half years back rooted 1× and a half years but having 1× and a half years compared to 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a 36 year 1× after the launch 1× congress had debated 1× dan s brother 1× edinburgh continues to 1× ford drops to 1×

Common sentence endings:

a half years 5× a loving father 1× a nice career 1× actual bodily harm 1× by about half 1× company has outgrown 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

five 7× two 6× seven 5× year 4× sentenced 4× spend 3× jail 3× isaac 3× per 3× thousand 3× crown 2× court 2×

Related phrases

years ago two years five years consecutive years four years recent years few years years old twenty years teenage years

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

half mile half dozen hair loss hair growth hair color hadn seen

Just after it in the phrase index:

hall effect halloween costume halloween night halloween party hamas attack hamas fighters

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

half dozen half mile

Same ending:

two years five years consecutive years four years recent years few years

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "half years" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and a half years, and a half years in jail, five, two and seven stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with years ago, two years and five years, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with half years

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Kennedy spent two years on bail and was then jailed for two and a half years. (16 words)

Moerschel was sentenced to three years in prison and Hackett got three and a half years. (16 words)

The flood three and a half years back rooted up those oaks, drowned or chased away half the people. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

After the launch of tramadol on the market in the first one and a half years, the frequency of development of dependence reached a peak - approximately two cases per 100,000 patients, in the next year and a half, this figure dropped by about half. (45 words)

Dan's brother Isaac has five and a half years on him, and if Dan goes down the same career trajectory over the five and a half to come, he will have done well for himself, as Isaac is having a nice career. (43 words)

Judge Greally sentenced him to nine and a half years in prison but suspended the final year and a half on condition that he comply with probation directions and that he take part in treatment programmes for domestic and sexual violence and addiction. (43 words)

Question examples

And what will happen in the remaining two-and-a-half years (or six-and-a-half years) of Trump's leadership? (22 words)

Example sentences (20)

The Vincentian, David Hepburn, of Sion Hill, will spend five and a half years in jail while Grenadians Denrol Walker, will spend 4 and half years, and Isaac Moore, will spend three and a half years in jail.

A 36-year-old man was sentenced on Thursday, May 6 at Laganside Crown Court to two and a half years, half to be spent in custody and half on licence for committing assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

He was jailed at Basildon Crown Court for three and a half years with a requirement to serve half his sentence in custody and half on licence.

After the launch of tramadol on the market in the first one and a half years, the frequency of development of dependence reached a peak - approximately two cases per 100,000 patients, in the next year and a half, this figure dropped by about half.

Ms Justice Burns set a headline sentence of seven and a half years but having regard to the mitigating factors she reduced this to four and a half years.

That's seven-and-a-half years without a loving mother, seven-and-a-half years without a loving father.

And what will happen in the remaining two-and-a-half years (or six-and-a-half years) of Trump's leadership?

Wittiza is succeeded by Roderic, who reigned for seven and a half years, followed by a certain Achila (Aquila), who reigned three and a half years.

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Dan's brother Isaac has five and a half years on him, and if Dan goes down the same career trajectory over the five and a half to come, he will have done well for himself, as Isaac is having a nice career.

Ford drops to the bench for Saturday’s Pool D showdown but is expected to appear in the second half, reforming the playmaking axis with Farrell last seen two and a half years ago.

Judge Greally sentenced him to nine and a half years in prison but suspended the final year and a half on condition that he comply with probation directions and that he take part in treatment programmes for domestic and sexual violence and addiction.

The flood three and a half years back rooted up those oaks, drowned or chased away half the people.

If you use trend figures to break that into half years, you find 70 per cent of it occurred in the first half and only 30 per cent in the second.

Their previous warehouse in Albany, Auckland is half the size of their new building which, after five and a half years, the company has outgrown.

Congress had debated the Articles for over a year and a half, and the ratification process had taken nearly three and a half years.

Within three and a half years, he got one hundred and twenty-five thousand new temples built, thirty-six thousand repaired, twelve and a half million murtis, holy statues, consecrated and ninety-five thousand metal murtis prepared.

Edinburgh continues to have the lowest availability of Grade A office space - at one-and-a-half years - compared to average annual leasing over the past five years.

He was initially sentenced in 2015 to seven and a half years in jail, but his appeal dragged on for years.

Kennedy spent two years on bail and was then jailed for two and a half years.

Moerschel was sentenced to three years in prison and Hackett got three and a half years.

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