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Lcchang Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

half as much again

What is "half as much again"? Please advise.

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Show some context, please.

  • Show some context, please.
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Show some context, please.
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I made them up.

Dad gave me 100 dollars, but he gave my sister half as much.

Dad gave me 100 dollars, but he gave my sister half as much again.

LC
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Dad gave me 100 dollars, but he gave my sister half as much.

Your sister got $50.

Dad gave me 100 dollars, but he gave my sister half as much again.

Your sister got $150.
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"I think," replies Phil after pensively tracing out a cross-wrinkle
in his forehead with the brush-handle, "that mischeevious
consequences is always meant when money's asked for."

"Lookye, Phil," says the trooper, sitting on the table. "First and
last, I have paid, I may say, half as much again as this principal
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do you mean 'half again as much" ?

In that case:

half again as much or as many, as much as 50 percent more: This mug holds half again as much coffee as the smaller one.

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