How to Use half as big/much/good as in a Sentence

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  • Likewise, China’s ten-year bond rate has come down since the start of this year but by half as much as the U.S. rate.
    — Sebastian Mallaby, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2020
  • Women earned about half as much as a man doing the same job and were seldom promoted.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • This is despite the fact that the growing high income class is still less than half as big as the middle class in America.
    — Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That may be expected for something that costs half as much as those others, too.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • Then again, Turkey’s baristas make an average $2,600, about half as much as a lawyer in that country.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
  • New Horizons weighs about half as much as Voyager 1, and in real dollars costs roughly one-third as much.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2015
  • Britain’s offices are being used half as much as before the pandemic.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But with its sunny climate and prices about half as much as in Paris and Zurich, the efforts to rein in demand are having little impact.
    — Henrique Almeida, Fortune Europe, 15 Dec. 2023
  • On average, our stocks over the past month have declined about half as much as their respective benchmarks.
    — John Dobosz, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The company pays workers in Cambodia half as much as its workers in Yangjiang.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • While some stayed in their home countries, other settled in France; none of them received a pension more than half as big as their French comrades in arms.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The same applies to grips; there are inexpensive lock-on models, like Bontrager’s $19 XR Comp grips, that cost half as much as others.
    — Mike Levy, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The price difference is about $120, but the brand also compares itself to Cozy Earth and Ettitude, two brands with sheets that cost nearly half as much as Quince’s.
    — Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The rise equates to about half as much as the deposit decline at small banks, suggesting some of the cash may have gone into money market funds or other instruments.
    — Reuters, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Latina, Black and Native American mothers who worked full time earned about half as much as the white, non-Hispanic fathers.
    — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Preseason games cost about half as much as regular-season games.
    — Richard Ryman, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • Child care is a significant expense for many families, often costing at least half as much as their housing.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 22 May 2024
  • The shredder utilizes 116 large and small spikes (almost over half as much as similar shredders on the market) composed of solid BPA-free plastic and nestled in a slip-proof silicone base.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
  • Subways bring in far less money than other chain restaurants—on average, about half as much as a Jimmy John’s location and about 14 percent of what a McDonald’s makes in a year.
    — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
  • There is only $2.7 million available each year, an amount intended to cover all of California, and half as much as observers say is needed.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Overall, the data fits with the observation that athletes who keep training at a fairly constant level over the years lose about 5 percent per decade—half as much as the typical nonathlete.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Women constitute a smaller percentage of the workforce in Italy than in any other country in the European Union, apart from Malta, and those who work make barely half as much as their male counterparts.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • National Association of Realtors data showed that there were only 3.2 months of available housing supply as of the end of last year, about half as much as there should be in a balanced market.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Ultras also weigh nearly half as much as the regular, less expensive QuietComforts.
    — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Ecolean’s concept of using a minimal amount of raw material to create a super-thin plastic for liquid foods that weighs half as much as competitors' packaging was a game-changer.
    — Tim Clark, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The documents came out ahead of a meeting later this week in which outside experts will discuss a recommendation to the FDA on Moderna's request for authorization of its booster, a third dose half as big as the initial two.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Biodiesel is particularly attractive to Exxon because reconfiguring its existing refineries costs about half as much as building a new plant, said Neil Hansen, senior vice president of product solutions.
    — Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023

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