Sentence examples for half to answer from inspiring English sources

For his first, which took him a year and a half to answer, he was instructed to show what his face looked like before his parents met.

I had multitasked the film by stepping out for a minute-and-a-half to answer the phone, and had thereby missed an integral element of the story.

She expresses relief that this happened now so there's a year and a half to politically answer those who demagogically call Ryan's a voucher plan and run ads "throwing grandma over a cliff".

(The candidates each had a half hour to answer questions from Cuomo and undecided or "leaning" voters).

Tea Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has departed, too, even though his term was only half over, to answer the siren call of a seven-figure job at the helm of the Heritage Foundation.

Like many aspiring writers, Robertson started out trying to place his poems in little magazines, but when he found himself "waiting a year and a half to receive the answer, and the answer was No", he decided in characteristic can-do fashion to set up an imprint of his own.

"Uh, no," he said, taking less than a half-second to answer.

"Do you have an hour and a half for me to answer this question?" Solveig laughs.

Some questions take no more than half a minute to answer and can be handled with what amounts to a form reply.

Whenever Dionysus makes self-exalting pronouncements in their midst, you half expect them to answer (as the female chorus of "H.M.S. Pinafore" does), "And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts".

When senior leaders do take time off, almost half (46percentt) continue to answer email, and nearly a third (29percentt) keep making work calls (meaning their families aren't getting much of them during vacation either!).