Sentence examples for half of talks from inspiring English sources

While the White House considers its long-term plans for Iraq, Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, arrived in Moscow this evening for a day and a half of talks with President Vladimir V. Putin.

"Russia insists the situation around Iraq should be settled on the basis of U.N. resolutions that were passed before," Mr. Putin said at a news conference with Mr. Blair, who arrived on Thursday evening, accompanied by his wife, Cherie, for a day and a half of talks with Mr. Putin at a hunting lodge north of Moscow.

Talks between Southwest Airlines and the union representing its flight attendants started on Tuesday under federal mediation, after a year and a half of talks failed to produce a new contract.

At least Redoubtable is taking her in a lighter direction after making three serious films back-to-back: The Childhood of a Leader, Tran Anh Hung's Éternité ("It's like a poem to life") and Joachim Lafosse's After Love, which she describes as "an hour and a half of talking and arguing".

An absolute 100% Compass Point product - Tom Tom Club was half of Talking Heads and Steven Stanley was credited as a band member as well, recognising the producer's massive creative input.

After five and a half hours of talks with President Johnson, Mr Kosygin had itchy feet.

So why should four and a half hours of talks at Lancaster House on Thursday make a difference?

The quid pro quo was hashed out by Mr. Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in seven and a half hours of talks in New York on Thursday.

"But we accept the primacy of the political system," Ulrich Hartmann, chairman of the Veba utility, said after four and a half hours of talks.

A senior Labour source said: "After five and a half hours of talks in Ed Miliband's office which ended at 2.30am, we are confident we have the basis of an agreement around our royal charter entrenched in statute".

After two and a half months of talks Actors Equity Associationn, the union representing actors and stage managers, reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday with the Broadway League, which represents producers and theater owners, averting a strike.