Sentence examples for half running time from inspiring English sources

Matthews, who has begun preliminary work on the 7/7 project, will interview survivors and capture what he calls the "scale" of the impact of the attacks over its hour and a half running time.

But at half the running time the show would probably be twice as enjoyable.

But why did the finished product here need to last fewer than 70 minutes, just about half the running time of the film?

It effectively masquerades, for almost half its running time, as a rueful, fast-moving comedy of middle-aged resignation and rebellion.

So, for about half the running time, you'd be hard pressed to realise you're watching a horror film at all.

The decision was apparently taken after Von Trier said he was unwilling to trim the two-part film's current five and a half hour running time himself.

For more than half its running time the film seems to be following the narrative structure of a standard sports story, unfolding through the triumphs and reversals of a single, fateful season.

Opening track Under the Pressure may be built around a strident piano figure and single-minded, I-drove-all-night drums but it eventually surrenders almost half its running time to phasing atmospherics.

It took me half the running time to realize who was playing this new beast, and it was only his voice that triggered the recognition; I suspect that there will be gasps during the end credits, as people see his name and find themselves rethinking the whole movie, marvelling at what could have inspired so stiff an actor to unfurl and bounce around.

At last right?! Across the video's four and a half minute running time EDM, DJs and club culture in general get a well deserved pasting.

And it certainly isn't boring, despite a mammoth two-and-a-half hour running time.