I'll be soaking for at least half an hour ''.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

A half hour later the Vice President arrived.

but Cousin Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning, and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass, what with the narrowness of the road and their baggage and ammunition carts.

McFeeley told the parents he would escort them to police headquarters in a half hour.

If my pass is approved, I may be a half hour.

Within half an hour I jumped a six-point buck that hop-skipped through a rhododendron thicket, and I caught him just behind the left foreleg at 60 yards.

It will accommodate firing rates as low as a half gallon an hour.

Although the play does show a certain structural amateurishness ( there are eleven acts varying in length from twenty-five seconds to an hour and a half ), the statement it makes concerning the ceaseless yearning and searching of youth is profound and worthy of our attention.

In addition to other treatments, treating the sections with normal sheep serum for half an hour before layering Af did not reduce nonspecific staining.

Rugged outdoor exercise for an hour and a half every day in all kinds of weather was the rule.

Became `` Yes, the first half hour is tough, but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it ''!!

Very old red wines often require several hours of aeration, and any red wine, brought from the cellar within half an hour of mealtime, should be uncorked and allowed some air.

At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.

My man came out an hour later, drove to the beach, turned right and after half a mile went to the Swim and Tan Motel.

in half an hour the reception would be over.

I had a bowl of decent chowder, phoned the Doc and he said he'd leave the death statements with his girl -- in a half hour.

One house was without power for about half an hour, a Narragansett Electric Co. spokesman said.

Rosburg had started early in the day, and by the time Palmer and Player were on the course -- separated, as they were destined to be for the rest of the weekend, by about half an hour -- they could see on the numerous scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg, who ended with a 73, was not having a good day.

Starting half an hour behind Player in company with British Open Champion Kel Nagle, Palmer birdied the 2nd, the 9th, the 13th and the 16th -- four birdies, one bogey and 13 pars for a 69.

But its relentless discursiveness and determined complexity are so overwhelming that after an hour and a half a listener's stamina begins to wilt.

Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!

" King Henry retorts, " I'll start my own Church ... Where divorce will be so easy, more than half of all marriages will end in it!

I told her, ' If it doesn't go number one, I'll send you my half.

His catchphrase is " I'll have a half ", in reference to a half pint of beer.

He had scored the one from 50 yards and he was in his own half, nobody near him and he shouted " Big Yin, ye'd better pick me up, I'll probably score from here "-you're talking 60-70 yards and I was thinking, he's got a point, I better get across.

* The Irish music group Wolfe Tones ' 1993 album Across the Broad Atlantic contains a tune called " Goodbye Mick " with the farcical line " For the ship will play with pitch and toss -- for half a dozen farthings, I'll roll me bundle on me back, and walk to Castle Gardens.

* I'll Jumble For Ya, where one team member is given thirty seconds to correctly match ten song titles divided in half and mixed up on a magnetic board.

A third song by Lehrer, " So Long Mom ( A Song From World War III )", was introduced as existing because, " If any songs are going to come out of World War III, we had better start writing them now ," and tells the tale of a young soldier marching off to nuclear war, promising his mother that " Although I may roam, I'll come back to my home / Although it may be a pile of debris " and also satirizing the likely extremely short duration of a major nuclear war (" And I'll look for you when the war is over / An hour and a half from now!

In his stage show with George Best Marsh later joked that the England manager Alf Ramsey told him ‘ I'll be watching you for the first 45 minutes and if you don't work harder I'll pull you off at half time ," to which Marsh said that he replied: “ Crikey, Alf, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea .”.

When the house was about half consumed, his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands, declaring repeatedly that he did not know the whereabouts of Manuel.

Between half and three-quarters of all women who have a chlamydia infection of the cervix ( cervicitis ) have no symptoms and do not know that they are infected.

So Nasreddin said Let the half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the half who don't, and left.

Additionally, due to poor records, they currently only know the rough whereabouts of half of them.

In the second half of the 5th century BC, particularly at Athens, " sophist " came to denote a class of mostly itinerant intellectuals who taught courses in various subjects, speculated about the nature of language and culture and employed rhetoric to achieve their purposes, generally to persuade or convince others: " Sophists did, however, have one important thing in common: whatever else they did or did not claim to know, they characteristically had a great understanding of what words would entertain or impress or persuade an audience.

Nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder.

In the 1960s, the railway enthusiasts ' book " Four feet eight and a half and all that " was published in a comparable style by G. R. Mills, with the same mixture of puns and humour, which will be best appreciated by those who know their subject already.

* We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.

' Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five and a half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground?

Most of what we know about Theudebert comes from the Histories or History of the Franks written by Gregory of Tours in the second half of the sixth century.

A Friend of the Earth is the story of Tyrone O ' Shaughnessy Tierwater, a U. S. citizen born in 1950, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish (" I'm a mess and I know it.

Literacy requires the memorization of a great many characters: Educated Chinese know about 4, 000 ; educated Japanese know about half that many.

If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us.

" might be the origin of the common Marketing quote " I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half ", falsely attributed to John Wanamaker.

Evidently, Verne assumed as a matter of course that a French readership more than half a century later would know who Sheridan was and would need no further explanation.

" Speaking of his addiction, which plagued him for two and a half years, Anderson said: " Anyone who has ever tried crack will know exactly why I took it.

In particular, Wilson demanded to know how " a scion of an effete establishment " could lead the technological revolution that Wilson held to be necessary: " This is the counter-revolution ... After half a century of democratic advance, of social revolution, the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl!

We know that he was at the heart of many of the greatest satires of his age, that he was a conduit and source for a great many of the finest literary accomplishments of a half century of writing, but Arbuthnot was zealous that he not receive credit.

He wanted to know if they would be willing to risk danger in order to save their half brother Benjamin.