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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.
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.

half and later
In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.
A half hour later he got her up to go out for breakfast so the Ferraros, hearing them hurrying down the stairs, would think they were going to a late mass.
A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.
In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.
Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.
With the discovery of oil in the later half of the 19th century, even oil stocks entered into the curb market.
The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.
He died in Rome a month and a half later.
Ptolemy in his Geography ( 2. 10 ), half a century later, presents a somewhat more complex view.
59 ), i. e. not later than the earlier half of the 7th century BC.
In all, half of the 32 episodes on The History of Beavis and Butt-head weren't included on later releases of the series, including all but two episodes on the first disc.
Two years later the Lions toured in South Africa, winning more than half of their normal matches.
A new style, during World War I, known as trench warfare, developed nearly half a century later.
Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.
( This initial version of the song played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the later hit version.
As Adalvard was back in Bremen already by 1069 and is mentioned as one of Adam's sources of information, it would have been expected that word about Birka's destruction had reached also Adam before he published his work half a decade later.
This led to very good coverage across most of the country and few problems of interference with other UK-based transmissions ; a stark contrast to the problems associated with Channel 5's launch fourteen and a half years later.
Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.
Meanwhile Chaytor's Force of infantry and mounted infantry in Anzac Mounted Division held the Jordan Valley, covering the right flank to later advance eastwards to capture Es Salt and Amman and half of a third Ottoman army.
However, this was considered an awkward title and the one-star flag rank was renamed a few months later to its current title of rear admiral ( lower half ), abbreviated by the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard as RDML.
Internet Explorer 4. x and later versions ( up to IE 8 ) decrease the default time out value to half an hour, which may be changed in corresponding registry keys.

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