Meaning of half-an-hour | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“[S]ome very languid remarks on the probable brilliancy of the ball were all that broke, at intervals, a silence of half-an-hour, before they were joined by the master of the house.”

“Alice laughed. "There's no use⟳ trying," she said: "one can't believe⟳ impossible things." / "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"”

“In about half-an-hour John and Mr. York, who was to be our new coachman, came in to see⟳ us.”

“"The dogs were no sooner let⟳ loose, than the hare was afoot. This time there was no stopping or casting, but the hounds were soon in full cry⟳, and after half-an-hour's run⟳, the hare came dancing down the moor towards me."”

“Fortunately the fever attacked me in the district town at the inn; I sent for the doctor. In half-an-hour the district doctor appeared, a thin, dark-haired man of middle height. He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put⟳ on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note⟳ up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk⟳ and remained.”

“For half-an-hour we were muffled in a cold, damp mist, and total darkness, and had begun to think⟳ of going indoors when, all at once, the car burst⟳ into the pure and starlit region of the upper air.”

“As an old and accustomed traveller, as fond of speedy travel⟳ as anyone, and not myself, at times, above pottering away an extra half-an-hour in town and making up time en route, my firm impression is that the necessity, the importance of this ultraexcessive rapidity of travel⟳ is a mistake⟳, which is becoming one of increasing gravity.”

“It may be only half-an-hour after a solid mid-day lunch, but the question⟳ will be put⟳ nevertheless, and your obliging steward, if you cannot make⟳ up your mind⟳ what you will have⟳, will very likely leave⟳ you for a moment only to hurry⟳ back with a tray bearing a large assortment of samples of the delikatessen beloved of the Fatherland.”

“["]Ghosh Babu, how long time they get⟳ for elevenses?" / "About half-an-hour," replied Ghosh with authority.”

“At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have⟳ been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.”

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