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half a page vs half page

Both 'half a page' and 'half page' are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Half a page' is used when referring to a specific amount of space on a page, while 'half page' is used when referring to a physical page that has been divided into two equal parts.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 8798 views

half a page

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to a specific amount of space on a page that is equal to half of the page's total space.

Examples:

  • Please write half a page about your favorite book.
  • The assignment requires half a page of written work.
  • I only have half a page left in my notebook.
  • He's got a list of medals half a page long.
  • Lane's record's only half a page long, Mac.
  • All that won't fill up half a page.
  • You could fit my entire resume on half a page.
  • A neighbour decomposes in your loft for two years and that's not even worth half a page?
  • She managed half a page on what he did for the rest of the day.
  • I felt very sorry for Commissioner Nielson who had to respond as duty Commissioner and who read out about half a page prepared by Commissioner Liikanen.
  • Summary description of individual projects half a page each plus summary financial indicators, budget committed per project in tabular form, final expenditure per project
  • The provisions on feeding laid down in Annex IV to the Regulation have been expanded - under the commitology procedure, without appropriate involvement of the EP - from half a page in the 2001 legal text to nine pages of detailed provisions and derogations.
  • You can tell that just from a half a page note?
  • Which, makes it a half a page left,

Alternatives:

  • a half page
  • half of a page
  • half the page
  • a page and a half
  • one and a half pages

half page

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to a physical page that has been divided into two equal parts, typically in a visual or physical context.

Examples:

  • The advertisement takes up half the page.
  • The magazine layout features a half page ad.
  • The brochure design includes a half page image.
  • It was a half page ad on a full page buy, you could barely see the product.
  • There's over a million and a half pages covering 18 years.
  • LaGRAVENESE: It was two and a half pages long.
  • thatthatlittleworld on that half-page is complete.
  • It was a half-page ad in a full-page buy.
  • ...wonderful sense of closure knowing... that that little world on that half-page is complete.
  • The twoand-a-half pages cover 1994 and 1995, with the exception of Thessaloniki and Dublin.
  • But the end product is actually tantamount to fraudulent misrepresentation, because very little of what has been set down in the nine and a half pages of this motion for a resolution actually relates to the subject of the report.
  • The PDSD should begin with a half-page executive summary. This should include the major challenges facing Greenland in the medium and long term, the main objective of the PDSD and the principal reasons for the choice of focal area.
  • He's got a list of medals half a page long.
  • All that won't fill up half a page.
  • I wanted to tear out half the pages, but... here it is.
  • I think it's more interesting with half the page missing
  • Lane's record's only half a page long, Mac.
  • You could fit my entire resume on half a page.
  • I was wondering what love is, when one day I found a half-burnt page.
  • And then to reply by copying the Chinese characters from the bottom half of the page.
  • Suppose they hand you an upside down, backward Chinese Braille Bible with half the pages missing?
  • Now I see those smiling faces... where the listing on the lower half of the page indicates some typical soft target locations.
  • Let's tear the page in half.

Alternatives:

  • half of a page
  • half the page
  • a half page
  • a page and a half
  • one and a half pages

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