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Example sentences from the Web for half-yearWhen he was in meetings during the first half-year and staffers would hit the Bush team, Gates wondered, “Am I invisible?” Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Secretary of Defense Bob Gates’ ‘Duty’|William O’Connor|January 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST In peregrines, which are notoriously slow and bad moulters, it may last a half-year. The Art and Practice of Hawking|Edward B. Michell There is an examination at the end of every half-year, and a boy must pass it well in order to get into a higher form. My Autobiography|F. Max Mller During the half-year since he had seen her June had been transformed. The Fighting Edge|William MacLeod Raine
Once every half-year she used to wrap her long, gray mantle around her, and wander down to Rome. Christ Legends|Selma Lagerlf Thus, in the half-year ending July 1888 there were twelve deaths and but one birth in the district of the Hatiheu. In the South Seas|Robert Louis Stevenson
noun- a period of 6 monthsthe campaign lasted nearly a half-year
- (as modifier)a half-year break
Words nearby half-yearhalfway, halfway house, half Wellington, half-wit, half-witted, half-year, hali-, halibut, Haliç, Halicarnassian, Halicarnassus Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |