How to Use half hour in a Sentence

half hour

noun
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  • The movie is a long haul, running more than two and a half hours.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
  • The train returns to Ely about two and a half hours later.
    — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Mrs Chan spent four-and-a-half hours among the marchers on June 9th.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2019
  • If your load is around 10 watts, APC says the battery will last around three and a half hours.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Rain will be heavy in some areas, falling at the rate of up to 1 inch per half hour, the NWS said.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
  • The longest leg, from San Francisco to Hawaii, took 18 and a half hours.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The show is currently set to run for 3 and a half hours, meaning there will still be plenty of time for awards and speeches in the second half of the show.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Feb. 2019
  • Two and one-half hours later Phoenix police arrested and booked for murder the man Bolles was to have met before the bombing.
    — AZCentral.com, 13 June 2019
  • For example, my flight to Singapore would have taken three and a half hours longer with a layover in Hong Kong.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Chimps, our closest living evolutionary relatives, average about nine and a half hours.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
  • The debate is scheduled to last about two and a half hours each night, and CNN plans on airing plenty of analysis afterward.
    — Caitlin Kelly, WIRED, 30 July 2019
  • Denton police made the announcement around 8:30 a.m., about two and a half hours after Sarbesh Gurung's body was found.
    — Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Stapleton’s no-nonsense half hour set the tone for the rest of the night, as a house band settled in to back solo slots from Taylor, Henley and Walsh without breaks.
    — Michael Rietmulder, The Seattle Times, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The entire eclipse spanned around three-and-a-half hours.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Pliny took naval quadriremes, the largest ships in his fleet, on the three-and-a-half hour trip across the bay.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2021
  • The creation of that dinner fills the first half hour of the story.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • That’s a two and a half hour drive from home to practice and play softball.
    — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • After a back-and-forth first half hour, the Timbers broke through.
    — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The plane left at 10:17 a.m., about three and a half hours later then scheduled.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Everyone had to leave me alone in my room for a half hour.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Maybe the first half hour was a little bit nerve-wracking.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Rick and Lisa Schardein made the two-and-a-half hour drive up from Louisville and booked a hotel room for the night.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2022
  • With the turbo function on we felt the difference in the space in just a half hour.
    — Elizabeth Marino, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
  • What, in the three and a half hours of The Irishman, is truly surprising?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Camille*, 30, used to get home from her one-and-a-half hour commute and pour herself a drink.
    — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Try to get up for a few minutes every half hour and stretch, stand, and walk around.
    — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Kelce's comment garnered over 1700 likes and dozens of replies in less than a half hour.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
  • Odense is on the island of Funen and an hour-and-a-half hour train ride west of Copenhagen.
    — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • When the other teen denied it, Pike allegedly kneed her in the face, kicking off a half hour of taunting, beating and slashing.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 24 May 2024
  • And students with commutes of a half hour or less got, on average, an hour and 15 minutes more exercise per day than those with longer commute times.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024

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