On Friday, mi querido only had a half-day at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

Another question here about a half-day for the jurors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2005] Reference

Taft, Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, only half-day closures.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2004] Reference

Oh, that IS modest (becomes half-day giddy half-dayébouler).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kog Zadare, only living person...] Reference

Except the last Sunday, which would only be a half-day again.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

In which our plucky young hero used to get a half-day holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference

That equates to selling 1 litre of my blood for a half-day off.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference

GUPTA: Maybe a half-day off, but he still has plenty more to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2005] Reference

Tomorrow was the first day of finals, and it was only a half-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eclipse]

But its a half-day off, and I'm so mercenary I just bore with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference

Once a month he had this half-day vacation from the hardware store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference

And I think that television kind of treated it as about half-day story.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2005] Reference

The schedule contains seven, 51-day weeks, divided into half-day units.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

I like being able to take a half-day off if I want and play my saxophone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2005] Reference

She was less tired after school this week as we did the half-day Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference

"I thought guys with hangovers would come in, take a half-day off," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snooze City] Reference

These are the lucky few, actually, that get to have a half-day off tomorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2003] Reference

For a half-day meeting, followed the next morning by our state-wide wing bee.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

It had taken her months to get here, what difference would a half-day delay make?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Wilds]

When morning came the boys found it easy to get permission to take a half-day off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold] Reference

'We scour and disinfect every half-day,' Signora Faranada bleated, tugging my sleeve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

The German maid was out, too, presumably illicitly, since Friday was not her half-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mind to Murder]

One glorious "half-day" off duty, riding across some fields we started a beautiful hare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Goes to War] Reference

They're going to have to be here all day as opposed to just the half-day they had planned.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2001] Reference

Friday is half-day so yesterday I got a bit giddy, drunk on the luxury of only 4 hours work.    From Wordnik.com.  [I bet everyone at Cadbury's is happy and fat...] Reference

The auto company offered delegates a half-day safe driving course on a specially built ice lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes From A Conference] Reference

The hours on the farm were not short; an eight-hour day would have been considered but a half-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

Florida was going through a real boom in population growth, and schools were like half-day things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Jim Pierce, July 16, 1974. Interview E-0012-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

If your child is old (or young) enough to tolerate a day or half-day in Havana, it's worth the effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corinne McDermott: Why We Love Cuba, and You Will Too...] Reference

On my return to Wa Ssu Kou a week later a free half-day gave me a chance for a little run over the border.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

The day is fixed at 12 hrs., which comprises 2 hrs. for rest; the half-day at 6 hrs., and 1 hr. for rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

The country's few elephant-activity tour operators, including Elephant Village, generally offer half-day to two-day programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing the World From on High] Reference