Sentence examples for half the speed from inspiring English sources

In the later record, he sometimes goes at half the speed of the earlier one.

On the rare occasions it does venture outside, even Poldark's horse plods along at half the speed.

France Telecom's Wanadoo, the market leader, was at the time offering broadband at half the speed, with no other features, for €39.90.

Girardi got slowly to his knees after one Ovechkin hit, and seemed for a moment to move at half the speed of the players around him.

The cosmic sound waves stretched 20,000 light-years, moved at half the speed of light, and were about 50 octaves below what people can hear.

Although Daly's arrows travel at roughly half the speed of a compound, they are heavy and, placed well, as lethal as the ultralight and rigid carbon arrows.

There are two solar winds: a fast, uniform, and steady wind, blowing at 800 km (500 miles) per second, and a slow, gusty, and sporadic wind, with about half the speed of the fast one.

Occasionally the duo would isolate one particular instrument on a record — a decaying horn loop or a clanging piano running at half the speed of the prevailing beat — a move that brought thoughtfulness to the floor.

It achieved speeds in excess of Mach 2.5, or two and a half times the speed of sound.

Of the roughly two dozen tour buses that rode by in the southbound lanes, about half exceeded the speed limit of 50 m.p.h. in the Bronx.

By the time he reached Kittinger's jump point, he'd be going more than nine hundred miles per hour — one and a half times the speed of sound.