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Bookmark or Share- a half mile OR half a mile - WordReference ForumsAs a noun phrase, only 'half a mile' is possible for me (BrE). The other is possible only as a sequence of words, not a constituent, in e.g. 'a [half mile] walk'. Presumably this is the same as the better-known BrE/AmE difference 'half an hour' (BrE), 'a half hour' (AmE), but of course I can't speak for AmE.
- a quarter miles - WordReference ForumsYou might call it a 'quarter-mile race' and abbreviate it to 'a quarter mile', and if there were three such races, you might say 'three quarter miles.' This would be similar to, say, a 400 metre race, which you could abbreviate to '400 metre' and have three '400 metres' at an athletics event.
- point one mile/miles | WordReference Forums0 miles 1 mile 2.1 miles 0.1 mile With numbers between zero and one, I think most people tend to use unit of measurement in singular; however, I don't believe anyone would really object if they were used in plural---this applies only if they are read as zero point one miles rather than one-tenth of a miles.
- half a mile uphill from Pan Toll Ranger Station. || not-so-spiritual"So we began half a mile uphill from Pan Toll Ranger Station (see: impacted parking, above). We piled out of the car on the not-so-spiritual side of the road." It sounds to me as though they went uphill from the Pan Toll Ranger Station in the car for half a mile and then parked and got out of the car. If they had gotten out of the car and then ...
- a half mile vs. half a mile | WordReference ForumsI have seen use of both 'a half mile' and 'half a mile' in different sentences but I don't understand the difference between two. For example between following sentences I can't figure out which one is correct. Is there any difference if I place "a" before or after "half"? 1. I have to walk down the road for a half mile to purchase the grocery. 2.
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