That half-minute was protracted beyond half an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference

In another half-minute he rose through the hatchway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on a Tower] Reference

He paused for a full half-minute and then asked quietly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mind to Murder]

For a half-minute or more, his silence filled the tunnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus From The Long Sun]

I fidgeted about, and looked at my watch every half-minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

But he came back to business at the end of his half-minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

Sukey had dissolved into tears after the first half-minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

After that, for some half-minute, he stared, without a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Pirates] Reference

For a full half-minute Hansen stared out through cupped hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

I used my title and got through to the doctor in a half-minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

I stared at the silent pay phone; I waited a half-minute or so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop Goes The Weasel]

Nobody spoke for a half-minute; then Spurling broke the silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

The crowd roared for what seemed like a solid half-minute. print share.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republican National Convention] Reference

In a half-minute its end, draped with marine growths, broke the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Before taking in the buoy he stood for a half-minute, scanning sky and sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

She was a good half-minute behind as she threw herself through the fire door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conferences are Murder]

He slid off the green shade and looked fixedly at Kim for a full half-minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

The first half-minute of it is basically this very depeche'd guy going Danger!.    From Wordnik.com.  [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference

It was an endless half-minute before he heard their sleepy, yet excited, voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind from The Sun]

She stood there a full half-minute, and then walked straight into the front rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash]

Radar readings showed the rest of the plane went on flying for a half-minute more.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2006] Reference

As the procession moves along, the latter rings his bell at about half-minute time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference

After a good half-minute of further silence he spoke, still looking down at the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Something In A Sunday]

But in (a) half-minute/minute, we do not get always what restorators do in days/months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting a Pixel Fix on the Enemy] Reference

He sat for a half-minute on the open boot-lid, trying to make up his mind to jump down.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football] Reference

In another half-minute the car had turned at the bottom of the hill and was out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference

Underneath the palm of that little hand there existed for that half-minute a little yawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference

In another half-minute the military gentleman would have turned the corner, and faced them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid] Reference

A half-minute passed in silence, then he said quietly: This is worse than I ever dreamed. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santorini]

For a full half-minute I kept him covered, and for a full half-minute he returned my steady gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

Then, they all came on at the gate, and in another half-minute were smashing and splitting it in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perils of Certain English Prisoners] Reference

In the next half-minute, perhaps a dozen people saw McVeigh walking away from the Murrah Building.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Row Interview] Reference

It took only a short half-minute, and with that afforded time for a small femininity to come into play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

And Brad Phillips served up a political history deep cut, reminding us of Jeanine Pirro's half-minute of dead air from 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explaining Jan Brewer's Debate Performance] Reference

A bell clanged every half-minute or thereabouts, and it seemed to me as if it had always been ringing and would always ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

Mr. Cutting observed that the light was carefully timed, and called attention to the half-minute hand on the clock in the tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

Six riders — from Rodríguez at 3: 54 back to Carlos Sastre in ninth at 4: 28 back — are stacked up within a half-minute of each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bola del Mundo likely to decide Vuelta a España] Reference