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Examples
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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.
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We are standing a hundred paws offshore, our siren every halfminute.
Rescue Ferrets at Sea Richard Bach 2002
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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
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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
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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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