halfhour

Since her mother's contacts with men were confined to halfhour encounters in bed, it did not take much to be regarded as a great raconteur by Puamana.

Beard 2010

Within the halfhour he would be delivering his message to Owain Gwynedd, and setting in motion the events which were to restore Cadwaladr his freedom, if not his lands, and remove from Gwynedd the threat of war, and the oppressive presence of an alien army.

His Disposition 2010

The nearest paved road is about six miles away and the largest nearby city, Victorville, is a halfhour drive.

Probe Looks at Why Truck Crashed 2010

To reduce cost and labor and for dramatic effect, this should be done without dropping the samples from a great height, and if thermate was what did it on 9/11, use the same variety of thermate that keeps steel molten in the ground for many months afterward, not thekind that burns for a minute or twoand then cools down to ambient temperature ina halfhour or so.

Suggestions for the 9/11 Truth Movement 2008

"There is no one in the church but Cynric, Father Boniface's verger, trimming the candles on the parish altar, and he has seen no one come or go within the past halfhour."

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

The messengers arrived during the halfhour of chapter, and would not eat, drink or rest, or wash the mud of the roads from their feet, until they had made their way in to the assembly in the chapterhouse, and delivered their charge.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

The halfhour after Compline seemed to be declining into total anticlimax.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

In the halfhour between chapter and High Mass, when Cadfael was busy sorting his harvest of blackthorn blossoms in his workshop, discarding occasional spines and fragments of wiry dark twigs, Hugh came in to share the gleanings of his own labours.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

But then my eyes have been acting up on me for the past halfhour.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

Everyone saw the sense of this, and for the next halfhour they were busy.

Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951