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You can use it to describe a meal that is smaller than a full lunch. For example, "We decided to just have a half lunch before the meeting so we wouldn't be too full for it."
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Hour-and-a-half lunch break to go get a burrito.
During an hour-and-a-half lunch, New York Times Co. Vice President and General Counsel George Freeman led the group in a discussion of a July 1999 police memorandum that outlined proper department procedures when dealing with the press.
But the heavily edited video excludes a crucial point: during the two-and-a-half lunch at which her comments were secretly recorded, Dr. Nucatola said ten times that PP made its charges not for profit but only to cover its expenses, which is perfectly legal.
"We were going to do a thirty-minute lunch and it was a two-and-a-half hour lunch," Crawford says of that initial meeting.
A two-and-a-half hour lunch date?
Even if you do manage to catch someone selling something in a shop or restaurant in France, they'll probably turn you away as they shirk off for a two-and-a-half hour lunch break.
In place of the usual recital -- Fulbright, Maine, cats, right, thanks, whatever -- Buckley lets us know he is "proudest of the fact that he recently had a ten-and-a-half-hour lunch with Christopher (no relation) Hitchens".
Valentine spent the afternoon meeting with General Manager Steve Phillips and the team's coaches for a two-and-a-half-hour lunch at the team's hotel, brainstorming over possible improvements and what direction the team is headed.
Dear Editor, I was outraged to read a passage in your recent article on jury duty (Welcome To Jury Duty!, FYI, Fall 1997) that began, It is not uncommon for judges to start proceedings at 10 30 a.m., call a two-and- a-half hour lunch recess and adjourn for the day at 4 p.m., for a total workday of three hours.
He does his writing each day for an hour and a half, after lunch.
Continental: A cold breakfast or snacks on flights over an hour and a half; breakfast, lunch or dinner on flights over two hours.
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