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Example sentences for: half-hour

How can you use “half-hour” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If they really like a particular site, they may visit it often, but they are unlikely to devote a continuous half-hour or more to any one site the way you might read a traditional paper magazine in one sitting.
I guessed the ending--not just the major revelations, but who would live and who would die--in the first half-hour, and I'm no Matlock.
Garry Shandling offers Bill and Bill , a "half-hour semi-erotic situation comedy" in which the romantic leads are a postal worker and his talking pet dog.
In early 1990, Fox, a fledgling outfit with nothing to lose, put the half-hour Simpsons in its Thursday, 8 p.m. slot, up against The Cosby Show , then the No.
Newcomer Freddie Muniz plays Malcolm, a gifted 9-year-old, and is "that rare thing, an uncloying child actor" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Many critics compare the show to Fox's best-known half-hour comedy, The Simpsons , saying it shares the same sense of the absurd (mother shaves father's back at the breakfast table, etc.) with an "undercurrent of love and gentle support" (Ramin Zahed, Variety ). (Click here to find out more about the show at Fox's official site.)