"Middle class" was showing up an average of one to three times in Obama's average half-hour stump speech for all of May.
An average half-hour of Los Angeles television news packs all its local government coverage including budget, law enforcement, education, transportation and immigration into 22 seconds.
Where I live -- Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest media market -- an average half-hour of local news packs all its local government coverage -- including stories about the budget, law enforcement, education, layoffs, new ordinances, personnel changes, city and county actions on health care, transportation and immigration and more -- into 22 seconds.
The researchers, who presented their findings last week in Quebec at a conference of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, said that in families they had studied, the children of obese mothers watched television on average half an hour more a day than the children over all, who watched for two hours a day.
Clearing customs takes on average half an hour, but often it's double that – depending on the line and the guards' moods.
It takes me on average half an hour longer to reach a destination than it would someone who isn't a wheelchair user – and that's assuming the station lift isn't broken.
It cited official labour market statistics showing full-time working men with dependent children worked on average half an hour longer each week than men without children.
MSNBC drew 3.5 million viewers with the Obama program; its average for that half hour (which is when it runs its most popular show, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann") is 2.1 million.
In their turgid opening session of three hours 21 minutes, table conditions were so poor that there were five consecutive frames which averaged half an hour's duration as Higgins took a 6-2 lead.
