Northern spouse is missing her very much

Usage examples of not half.

The analogy between cars and operating systems is not half bad, and so let me run with it for a moment, as a way of giving an executive summary of our situation today.

When the votes came to be counted out there were over seven thousand for Lincoln, and not half that many hundred for McClellan.

I'm not half so skinny as I was when I came here, but I have no dimples yet.

Thus we may account for the success which has attended great impostors, at times when the truth, though not half so wondrous as their impositions, has been disregarded.

It was crawling with people like a jar of lightning bugs abuzz with activity, but not half as bright.

The gods knew it was far easier to follow, without thought, but not half so satisfying.

The eyes that shed those glances were really not half so fine as Adam's, which sometimes looked at her with a sad, beseeching tenderness, but they had found a ready medium in Hetty's little silly imagination, whereas Adam's could get no entrance through that atmosphere.

Now here was this new kind of creature who was not half Ben's size and yet had had the sense to come into his garden and begin at once.

They found their dwelling on the hill not half prepared for them, leaking and cold and cheerless.

The boy was not half awake when he stumbled into the cold barn, and was greeted by the lowing and bleating and neighing of cattle waiting for their breakfast.