Half-hour

We arrived at the station a half-hour before the train started.

It rained like mad for about a half-hour.

We're free right now, but we've got a meeting in a half-hour.

The train is about a half-hour overdue.

These walks home from school are almost the only time I have for dreaming... except the half-hour or so before I go to sleep.

We've spent around a half-hour to prepare.

For some half-hour he tried to comfort himself with an idea that he could get hold of Captain Marrable and maul him; that it would be a thing permissible for him, a magistrate, to go forth with a whip and flog the man, and then perhaps shoot him, because the man had been fortunate in love where he had been unfortunate.

They have a half-hour break at noon.

I drove the half-hour trip back home.

The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]