Half
Meanings and phrases
half
- consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
- partial
- (of siblings) related through one parent only
half
- partially or to the extent of a half
half
- one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; one-half
- one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
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- a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice; Hell's Kitchen
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- the first of two halves of play
- Song 27", the first half of the cycle's 27th part.
- With a first half equalizer scored by S. Stewart.
- Suduva drew level on aggregate in the first half.
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- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one; six; 6; VI; sixer; sise; Captain Hicks; sextet; sestet; sextuplet; hexad
- We identified where half a dozen rigs had been lost over the years.
- Namchi has more than half a dozen private schools with quality education (Mt.
- Dhawade boasts to have about half a dozen tractors and same number of trucks.
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- book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another
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- a brother who has only one parent in common with you; stepbrother; half-brother
- He succeeded to his half brother's titles on 11 March 1869.
- He is the older half brother of The Game.
- Slew o' Gold was a half brother to the stakes winning Coastal.
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- a United States coin worth half of a dollar; fifty-cent piece
- From 1948 to 1963, Franklin's portrait was on the half dollar.
- The Frasers' design for the half dollar has been widely admired.
- A commemorative half dollar for the battle was produced in 1936.
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- an exterior door divided in two horizontally; either half can be closed or open independently; Dutch door
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- denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units; six; 6; vi; half-dozen
- There are like half dozen of private schools too.
- A half dozen singles charted in the Top 100 as well.
- By 1914, Centerville contained but a "half dozen houses".
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- a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board
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- the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate); half-life
- The elimination half life of phenylephrine is about 2.5 to 3.0 hours.
- Bupranolol has a plasma half life of about two to four hours, with levels never reaching 1 µg/l in therapeutic doses.
- While widely used in laboratory applications, JQ1 is not itself being used in human clinical trials because it has a short half life.
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- a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes; domino; eye mask
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- a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile; 880 yards
- Distance markers are located at every half mile.
- It is located a half mile west of U.S. 1.
- It is about half mile east of Dymock.
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- a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck
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- a musical rest having the time value of half a whole rest or equal in duration to two beats in common time
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- a sister who has only one parent in common with you; half-sister; stepsister
- Her father remarried and Xenia had one half sister, Olga Andreevna.
- He had three full sisters, and one half sister by his father's first wife.
- His half sister was Constance Cummings-John, a well known Creole Pan-Africanist.
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- a motor vehicle propelled by half tracks; frequently used by the military
- a track that goes around only rear wheels
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- the second of two halves of play; second half
- There are good campsites along the last half mile of this trail.
- He was in charge of the arsenal in Danville during the last half of the war.
- During the last half of the 19th century, under the leadership of President F.A.P.
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- the second of two halves of play; last half
- The second half was held in Bilbao (October 6–14).
- Once again, Michigan collapsed in the second half.
- The second half began with a speedy Cardiff attack.
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- After five years, more than half are back inside.
- Slow tunes ... make up more than half the 11 tracks.
- It spent more than half a year (27 weeks) on the U.S.
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- She began ice skating at two and a half years old.
- Work on the script went on for two and a half years.
- She ended up spending four and a half years in jail.
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- This experimenting took place in the latter half of 1862.
- The series ran for 9 episodes in the latter half of 2008.
- Work finished in the latter half of 2011.
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- The other half was purchased at an advance in 1690.
- The other half go to the god Odin's hall, Valhalla.
- The other half would go to the state's general fund.
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- By May 1945 half a million people (35%) had fled.
- It has had over half a million views on YouTube.
- The population is in excess of half a million people.
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- The entire attack lasted less than half an hour.
- The walk should have taken her half an hour.
- Long died half an hour after being taken to the hospital.
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- He set up another try before being rested at half time.
- Clare were leading the game by 1-5 to 0-7 at half time.
- At half time, Maryland trailed Miami, 31–0.
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- The entire attack lasted less than half an hour.
- It is less than half a mile from U.S. Route 51.
- This was less than half the number prescribed in 2014.
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- No one had felt their board in nearly half a decade.
- Grant, lost nearly half of its men, 209 of 428.
- The riot took up nearly half an hour with all the replays.
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- It's their reunion for half a century.
- He died in 1695, aged only 26; his widow outlived him by half a century.
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- CHP had collected almost half of the votes at %46.
- In Hungary they serve almost half the population.
- Nature parks cover almost half the area of Franconia.
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- It is found in the southern half of Australia.
- the southern half became part of a newly designated M-20.
- In the southern half of the floor are the craters Diderot and Babakin.
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- If it is on for only half of each cycle, the angle is 180°.
- Some opened on entire legs of the tour, others for only half.
- The petals are similar to the lateral sepals but only half as long.
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- The interior floor has a low ridge in the northern half.
- The northern half was made part of M-82.
- The northern half of the city contains the Sefuri Mountains.
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- US 17 is a major highway in the eastern half of Virginia.
- The eastern half is possessed by the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan.
- The hurst frame occupies the eastern half of the first two levels.
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- Alnmouth railway station is about half a mile away.
- It is about half a mile to the east of Speech House.
- It is less than half a mile from U.S. Route 51.
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- Joe Bob Briggs gave the film 2 and a half stars.
- I’m going with two and a half stars," she added.
- He rated the album two and a half stars out of five.
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- The reef's islet is in the western half.
- The western half remained vacant.
- The eastern half of the beach is much more narrow than the western half.
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- during a time that half of all life is still dead.
- As many as half of all women are retinal tetrachromats.
- About half of all ISPs offered 56K support by October 1997.
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- The lower half was made up of the House of Burgesses.
- The lower half is a serpent, "nowed" or coiled.
- Most of the leaves grow from the lower half of the plant.
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- It took four and a half hours to resolve 400 laps.
- Race organizer Metzgen finished in 30 and a half hours.
- It takes one and half hours from these stations to the top.
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- He drew away near the finish to win by two and a half lengths from First Lieutenant.
- She also finished fourth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, beaten one and a half lengths.
- He won by one and a half lengths from Never So Bold, with Committed third and Habibti sixth.
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- Port-au-peck covers , approximately half of Oceanport.
- He approximately half of Opeth's lead guitar sections.
- Currently, approximately half are pediatric recipients.
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- Over 9,000 participated in the 2011 half marathon.
- In 2012, she came first in the Dili half marathon.
- Diego's half marathon is the 2015 US leading time.
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- It was also noted that it was half hour from Sar'a.
- Smith agrees to come to Baker Street within a half hour.
- He also has a half hour comedy series for UKTV 'Henry IX".
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- He led the newspaper for the next half century.
- Reciprocity went nowhere; McKinley's vision was a half century too early.
- This was his only half century score in the tournament and came against Denmark.
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- The upper half is distinctive for the Doric order.
- The stem has a membranous, whitish ring on its upper half.
- The iris is dark brown with a golden crescent in the upper half.
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- The game was also released on PS2 half a year later.
- It spent more than half a year (27 weeks) on the U.S.
- She was held by the Gestapo in Vienna for more than half a year.
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- The channel's waterway is three and a half miles in length.
- The most fished reaches are the lower three and a half miles.
- Irby is just over five and a half miles from the village of Keelby.
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- By the summer of 1940, Belgians made up around half of No.
- Foreign investment accounts for around half of that amount.
- It is likely that around half of the population is in India.
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- It took three and a half year to build the hotel.
- and left after three and a half year Diyarbakırspor.
- After half year blank, On 20 July 2009, the 2.
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- The top half operates independently from the bottom half.
- The Coat of arms is in Maroon while the top half is in Gold.
- The top half was even assumed to have no gaps in the latticework.
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- The film played in theaters for six and a half months.
- I was sentenced to two and a half months."
- in three and a half months 25 million passengers have used MCC.
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- She finished second, beaten half a length by the colt Catchpole.
- Ridden by Thierry Jarnet, she won by half a length from Alice Springs.
- As they crossed the line, Ryland took the victory, but by only half a length.
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- In their final year roughly half of boarders chose to enter the house.
- He deployed roughly half of the Ethiopian army to contain the struggle.
- Only roughly half of the album's featured guests recorded in the studio.
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- The top half operates independently from the bottom half.
- The Diamondbacks broke the game open with eight runs in the bottom half.
- Then in the second leg, the league is divided into a top and bottom half.
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- Players who started at least half of the games are shown in bold.
- In 2012, at least half of the firms partners were Writers to the Signet.
- At least half of the directors in a company must be residents of Brunei.
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- She got half way up the Amazon and said 'this is not going to work'.
- "Let the Union thugs get their way now and we are half way there," he said.
- Ridden by Goater, Chamant tracked the leaders before taking the lead at half way.
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- He played as a half back for Manchester City and Wrexham.
- Pratt played at scrum half back in the Bulls' 22–4 victory.
- His regular position was as a half back.
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- One and a half million people were displaced from their homes.
- In total, the program grew a half million liters of biological agents.
- This star cluster is estimated to be around two and a half million years old.
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- The centre half back generally marks the centre half forward.
- Rodgers plays as a defender, either at centre half or full back.
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- Birka was abandoned during the later half of the 10th century.
- He also feuded with Braun Strowman in the later half of the year.
- The reconstruction of the temple started in the later half of 2009.
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- First, charges to consumers were cut in half.
- Some lines were cut in half; many stations were shut down.
- In 1963 the property was cut in half by the Antelope Valley Freeway.
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- He scored a further 16 half centuries.
- Roman rule in Schierstein lasted for almost three and a half centuries.
- One of two half centuries he made, this score came against the touring West Indians in 1923.
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- (i.e., in the left half of the complex plane).
- The Lamb of God stands atop the trampled demons from the left half.
- The smaller, left half of the building, held Whilldin's personal office.
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- This short song takes about two and half minutes to perform.
- The player gets approximately six and a half minutes to explore each level.
- It is also the album's longest track at more than seven and a half minutes.
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- The air conditioning loads were divided in half, each half fed from each "bus".
- Instead, each half of the bracket was hosted by one of the league's two top seeds.
- Uxas knew that each half of the pantheon would be less powerful than the original gods.
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- "Traveler" was half the size of the "Oregon".
- The Viking was roughly half the size, in terms of mass and power, of the V-2.
- The anal fin has 2 spines and 14 soft rays; the first anal spine is half the size of the second.
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- An hour and a half later, they began firing again.
- He died in prison a year and a half later.
- A year and a half later, Conlon also was hired by Sidley & Austin.
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- Carey played one and a half seasons with Washington.
- Aves in the Segunda Liga after one and a half seasons.
- He spent two and a half seasons with Koblenz, scoring eleven times.
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- They resist for an hour and a half before retreating, killing 22 Rochellese in total.
- and he died at 5:40 pm, exactly an hour and a half before the day's sunset prayers ("maghrib").
- For a month and a half before shooting started, the actors who portrayed apes attended "ape school".
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- Henry played at right half back on the Dublin senior football team.
- Thus we can differentiate which photons hit the left or right half of the detector.
- The right half forward's main opposing player is the left half back and vice versa.
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- The blast was felt up to half a mile away.
- It can waste up to half the carbon fixed by the Calvin cycle.
- However, other geneticists place the Germanic estimate up to half.
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- Dale Earnhardt defeated Ernie Irvan by nearly half a second.
- Jamie Whincup ended the session on top, half a second faster than Will Davison.
- You can layer your own voice 700 times for half a second if you want, and I just love that kind of music".
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- The palea is over half the length of the lemma.
- Inferior appendages are about half the length and thick at base.
- The aperture is white within and measures over half the length of shell.
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- In Hungary they serve almost half the population.
- Roughly half the population of Madagascar was enslaved.
- Over half the population list Cree as their mother tongue.
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- The basal half of the costa is often dark.
- In females, the apical half of the fore-wings are transparent; basal half tinted with golden-yellow with black marks.
- Wings are hyaline for apical half and opaque steely blue-black for basal half which is bordered by a milky white patch towards the tip.
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- Clemson scored first, then pulled away 14–7 before half.
- He received three technicals before half time, and was ejected.
- Stoke were guilty of wasteful finishing before Marc McNulty headed the Royals in front just before half time.
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- Dani only spent half a season at La Roda.
- After just half a season with Cleveland, Deng joined the Miami Heat for 2014–15.
- Nfor played half a season at Ghent, but could not completely break in first class.
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- The fruit is an achene just over half a centimeter long.
- just over half is from underground mines.
- On average, the schools received just over half of their income from the state.
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- Clemson was driving for another score before the half when Cullen Harper's pass was deflected and picked off by Nebraska.
- Joe Krol avoided a potential turnover later in the half when he dropped the ball on an attempted kick in Bombers territory.
- In the bottom of the third, the Cubs cut the lead in half when Ripper Collins singled to lead off and moved to second on a groundout by Lee.
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- He normally playbvs as a midfielder or half forward.
- The centre half back generally marks the centre half forward.
- Most of his football was played at half forward or on a wing.
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- He received three technicals before half time, and was ejected.
- Stoke were guilty of wasteful finishing before Marc McNulty headed the Royals in front just before half time.
- One Halliday shot hit the post, another went inches wide before he put Queens ahead five minutes before half time.
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- This was less than half of what one might have expected at the time.
- The result was that the modular frame weighed less than half of what the steel frame weighed.
- The demolished Tex-Park garage actually only occupied the northern half of what is commonly termed the "Texpark site".
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- He would spend two and half season at the club.
- He stayed there for one and a half season.
- During the half season of 1997–98, Dănciulescu had a brief spell with Altay in the Turkish Super League.
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- The field included ten previous champions, half of whom made the cut.
- Today, the Union has about 2500 members, half of whom are high-school teachers.
- Most of the inmates are people awaiting trial, half of whom have not been charged.
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- Awareness is low; one study found only about half of researchers had read the ICJME criteria.
- It was described as mediocre by modern sources, and attracted only about half the numbers of the Degenerate Art one.
- Actually this shape is only about half as wide as a traditional portrait and close in proportion to a typical doorway.
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- They are about one and a half times as long as the carapace.
- That is one and a half times the water held in the Antarctic.
- The planet is at least one and a half times the mass of Jupiter, and its orbital period is 643.25 days.
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- In December, the group split in half.
- The manor was split in half between Robert de Pleasington and Elias de Pleasington.
- Some of the features of the show include a police car split in half and a race car airborne.
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- 1, 2, and 3 respectively) are within half a kilometer of the township.
- Two telephone warnings were given within half an hour before the blast.
- The digestive complaints usually develop within half an hour of ingesting the allergen.
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- From 1963 to 1967 it went off at eight and a half furlongs.
- In 1994 the distance was set at its current miles (eight and one half furlongs).
- A month later, Caerwrle was sent to Epsom for the Ebbisham Stakes over eight and a half furlongs.
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- Distance markers are located at every half mile.
- The Train runs every half hour towards Rotkreuz-Zug-Baar and Lucerne-Sursee.
- When prisoners filed complaints, the guards started waking them every half hour.
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- The portal is about half a meter from the wall.
- The upper eaves projects about half a meter from the wall.
- In larger species, it can reach a thickness up to half a meter (1.6 ft).
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- In those cruel battles the company lost half of its staff.
- He withdrew in disarray in December 1589, having lost half his troops.
- He had lost half of his fluids and was put in the intensive care unit.
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- their files take up half the space of PCM).
- In fact, they seemed to take up half of Veterans Stadium.
- The songs make up half of the album Adventures in Gramophone.
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- The 3rd part i.e., cued as "step" usually uses half the time of the whole pattern, e.g.
- The light-water designs spent, on average, about half the time being refueled or maintained.
- Subadult males (unflanged) will try to mate with any female and will be successful around half the time.
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- After half a day of fierce battle Afonso was forced to retreat.
- Director Ang Lee noted, "I didn't take one break in eight months, not even for half a day.
- These symptoms usually start suddenly, half a day to five days after ingestion of the bacteria.
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- The disc took just one and a half days to do.
- He has worked only two and a half days.
- The shoot took six and a half days, which concluded on August 8, 2002.
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- If it is on for only half of each cycle, the angle is 180°.
- It was agreed that Spedding would spend half of each week in Ames, and half in Chicago.
- A half of each class of the JD program receive scholarship that cover the full tuition.
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- The first dorsal fin originates over the posterior half of the pectoral fin bases.
- The whip-like dorsal electroreceptive appendage inserts in the posterior half of the body.
- These keels are produced by the posterior half (metazonite) of each body ring behind the collum.
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- The book had a four and a half star out of 5 score on customer reviews in Amazon in January 2018.
- Writing for "The Indian Express" Shubhra Gupta gives it one and half star out of five and says, ""Kalank" doesn’t really lift off the screen.
- Rajeev Masand of CNN IBN gave it a two and a half star rating explaining "a stronger male lead and some tighter editing might have turned this into a crackling film.
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- The wash is typically swished or gargled for about half a minute and then spat out.
- The shock lasted about half a minute and was felt all over Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
- For release as a single, "Hold Me" was edited, removing around half a minute from its duration.
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- At New York's IFC Center the film ran for four and a half weeks.
- The band broke up for two and a half weeks, until a meeting on September 17 at Brian's house.
- The accused officers were kept on regular patrol duty for two and half weeks after the incident.
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- After round 15, Flohr led Botvinnik by half a point.
- If a match was level after 18 holes each side was awarded half a point.
- American Samoa beat the Apia team by half a point and won the Samoa Cup.
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- The second half of season 1 was released on July 4, 2019.
- Second half of season was much better.
- He joined to Sloga Kraljevo for second half of season 2013–14.
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- PBR television broadcasts now reach half a billion households in 130 territories around the world.
- Contrary to the nearby Griqua group, the orbits of the Zhongguos are stable over half a billion years.
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- Dani only spent half a season at La Roda.
- As her parents are environmental scientists, she moved frequently and spent half of her childhood in Nigeria.
- After the war ended Theo, ever the wandering Jew, spent half his time in America and half his time in Antwerp.
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- AMNH 5403 consists of the severely compressed front half of a skeleton including the skull.
- Three stoves provided what heat there was for the front half of each barrack, and two for the rear half.
- Geroux positioned the filly just behind the leaders before sending her to the front half a mile from the finish.
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- It was selling 1936 and 1937-D half dollars in 1943.
- Scott was able to sell some of the 1928 half dollars.
- Like the half dollars, copies were later made as souvenirs.