half-past

That's not because the game is short, it's because it sort of devours whole chunks of your day and leaves you blinking with a crick in your neck, wondering why the clock says it's midnight, when you could swear it was just half-past four in the evening.

REVIEW: Batman: Arkham Asylum 2009

He was making four miles an hour, and he calculated that he would arrive at the forks at half-past twelve.

To Build A Fire 2010

It was now half-past five, and half-an-hour later, when the last of the day lost itself in a dim and furious twilight, I sighted a third boat.

Chapter 17 2010

He was making four miles an hour, and he calculated that he would arrive at the forks at half-past twelve.

To Build a Fire 2010

At half-past eight, famished, tottering, I washed up, changed my clothes, and dragged my weary body to the car.

Chapter 20 2010

And that night they worked till half-past ten, dipping "fancy starch" - all the frilled and airy, delicate wear of ladies.

Chapter 16 2010

At twelve o'clock it gets dinner, composed of a tin of coarse Indian meal stirabout (skilly), and at half-past five it gets

THE HUNGER WAIL 2010

You've got to drop one child in one place, and another child in another, and get yourself to work and be in by half-past eight.

Parents set to benefit from changes to free childcare 2011

The food that is given to it consists of a piece of usually bad - baked prison bread and a tin of water for breakfast at half-past seven.

THE HUNGER WAIL 2010

At half-past twelve, to the minute, he arrived at the forks of the creek.

To Build a Fire 2010