单词	half-hour
释义	half-hourˌhalf-ˈhour, half hour noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES I got off work a half-hour ago. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But then it was a half-hour, then 40 minutes. In a half-hour audience the King's new National Government was created. Our hypothetical Ann could eat her packet of peanuts, for example, if she added three half-hour swims to her weekly routine. Probably walking for a half-hour through the terminal. She had gone well over the half-hour. The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish. There were beautiful paintings, musical tributes to the island, a rousing half-hour of drumming. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► spend · But the distribution of the supplies involves a tortuous journey and an agonising delay.Faqir spends another half-hour trying to revive the engine.· I spent a half-hour recently putting together the ultimate birthday gift for my 5-year-old niece.· Bewildered, I went over to the table and spent the next half-hour stalwartly drinking the two bottles. a period of time that is 30 minutes long:  Fay had been in her room for a good half-hour.—half-hour adjective:  a half-hour TV show
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