half-hour
半小时,半个小时,半小时内,半小時
Definitions
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- : a period of 30 minutes.
- : the midpoint between the hours: The clock struck on the half-hour.
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- : of, relating to, or consisting of a half-hour: half-hour programs.
Examples
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.