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How to use the word four-and-a-half in a Sentence?

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We've been together for four and a half years, it's been amazing. She makes me a better person.

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Found on CNN
1 year ago

The number of people and population density factored in hugely, you've got 8 million plus people in New York City alone. Louisiana has four-and-a-half million people statewide, maybe a million in the exposed area. So, far fewer people were exposed to damage here.

Craig Colten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I haven’t seen either one of them in four and a half, five years, it’s silly as f–k.

Erika Jayne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even with new announcements from Germany and Canada, all G7 countries need to go further and faster with their individual commitments as well as take collective responsibility for achieving the $ 100 billion goal before COP26, they acknowledge in the communiqué that more commitments must come by COP. So I think the question is,' Why not now ? What's the delay ?' Developing countries deserve to have the confidence going into COP 26 that the Paris Agreement will be delivered. And it can't go down to the wire. These leaders need to prioritise building trust and momentum now with the four and a half months left to COP 26.

Catherine Pettengell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ms. Jolie has been working privately for four and a half years to both heal her family and to fight for improvements to the system to ensure that other families do not experience what hers has endured.

Peter Harvey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They were about four and a half, five feet long and then the full width of the floor joist, so about 18 inches wide and 12 to 15 inches deep. So that was a big space they were in, they were doing really well.

Bobby Chaisson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From the first kilometer, I was really comfortable, i have been training for this for four and a half months, I have been putting my heart and mind to run under two hours for a marathon and make history.

Eliud Kipchoge

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are certainly glad to have this over, it has been a long four and a half years, but The Jackson County jury got The Jackson County jury right and hopefully he is staring at five life sentences without parole.

Ronald Sandhaus

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I am considering it, i have a very important responsibility from now until November 6 to re-elect a Democratic majority( in Maine House), so I am laser-focused on that in the next four and a half weeks. However, this is something I am seriously considering and once we get past November 6 then I will be really laying out everything and making a decision.

Sara Gideon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Yellow Fever celebrates all things Asian: the food, the culture and the people and our menu reflects that featuring cuisine from Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand and Hawaii, we have been a proud Asian, female-owned business since our founding over four and a half years ago in Torrance, California.

Kelly Kim

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We drove four and a half hours.

Brad Thomas

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The bitter truth is that it is only now, four and a half years later, that we are finally and with tremendous difficulty making a breach in the wall of indifference, silence and lack of sympathy, and for this we ourselves are largely to blame.

Pyotr Kravchanka

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I spent four-and-a-half years in Iraq before I got hurt and there's a lot of great Muslim people on the planet.

Tim Newman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Four-and-a-half years after the events started unfolding at Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese government, the nuclear utilities and the NRA have not succeeded in overcoming complete planning insecurity for investors. The outlook for restarts is as cloudy as ever.

Mycle Schneider

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It took me 45 seconds to put it up and within four and a half minutes every news agency in the world was reporting it.

Michael Trujillo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The threat today is unfortunately more expansive than what it was four and a half years ago, ...With that being said, we also have better insights into who the potential bombers are.

John Pistole

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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14 years ago

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