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  • They forecast Mr Brown's speech would receive a four-and-a-halfminute ovation, while Tony Blair's ovation would be only four minutes.

    Gordon Brown's Sudden Interest in National Security 2006

  • We are standing a hundred paws offshore, our siren every halfminute.

    Rescue Ferrets at Sea Richard Bach 2002

  • For it had taken everyone just that halfminute to remember certain dreams they had had - dreams that make you afraid of going to sleep again - and to realize what it would mean to land on a country where dreams come true.

    The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis, C. S. 1952

  • A big curling sea struck her starboard quarter too sharply, and for a dread halfminute she hung with her port gunwale in the water as she dropped like a log down the side of the wave.

    A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871

  • This is going to be unpleasant. just gave up 14 points in under a halfminute. on 3rd and long, sage rosenfels tried to hurdle two defenders, fumbled, returned for a touchdown, 3 point game. the Colts are my other team.

    Arrowhead Pride 2008

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