Sentence examples for last a half from inspiring English sources

A trend can last a half a year, but some are finished in a month.

I just remember laughing at myself because I couldn't even last a half a day without unconsciously eating sugar, so of course forever seemed impossible.

Also, fentanyls typically last a half hour to an hour compared to heroin's five hours or so producing uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms much more rapidly.

Stooping to the last refuge of the scoundrel, Scott denounced "the fuckin' Dixie Chicks--They wouldn't last a half a day in the desert" (whatever relevance that might have to their views on the wisdom of a war in Iraq).

Is this a record, Dad?" I don't think we'll last a half-century on this street.

He also figured that Beckett caused the game to last a half-hour longer than it would have if a faster pitcher were on the mound.

Phone interviews can often last a half-hour to an hour, Ms. Doyle said; be sure to have your résumé in front of you, along with a list of your accomplishments.

ALMOST every television viewer is familiar with infomercials, those late night and daytime commercials that usually last a half-hour and promote products like exercise equipment, diet plans or get-rich-quick ideas.

Generations typically last a half-decade and are preceded by the promise that the new, ever more powerful devices will improve the world's youngest major creative medium, make their manufacturers a lot of money and in some way reconfigure living rooms across the world.

Debachus said that the initial meeting included a group of five LGBT community leaders and representatives of the church and was supposed to last a half-hour.

The play period lasts a half hour.