Sentence examples for taken a half from inspiring English sources
Trips that had previously taken a half hour suddenly took half a day.
It has taken a half a decade for Daniel Radcliffe to escape the ghost of Harry Potter – and he's done it by playing a dead man.
That sum includes a $1.25 billion settlement from Swiss banks, which agreed to pay only after a protracted fight that put the United States and Switzerland at loggerheads over actions taken a half century ago; a $4.4 billion agreement from Germany to pay slave and forced laborers and other victims; and smaller accords with Austria and other countries.
It's taken a half million dollars in angel funding.
Debates over the relative merits of a Saturday night movie have taken a half an hour or more -- and I'm just so proud of that fact.
With the new Connect cars available, Ms. Dziuk said, she has taken a half-dozen excursions.
The rest are also larger, and taken a half-century later.
She had already taken a half-hour subway trip from her home in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The firm has repeatedly taken a half-finished idea (digital music player, smartphone, tablet computer) and shown the industry how it should be done.
It may have taken a half-century of immense destruction at the hands of Europeans to transform the above into axioms that few challenge today.
In 2007, Luard had taken a half-share in Valegro, and now the two of them had the opportunity to finance Hester's yard, and Luard's involvement in the sport, for years.
