The half-minute or so of talk had enabled him to regain his breath.
For about a half-minute that seemed a half-century, he didn't know what to do.
Wait a moment, fair creature; give me one half-minute for an explanation.
But it was only for a half-minute that old Parrish's endurance lasted.
In a half-minute Forister and I, in our shirts, faced each other.
As a rule it is only the very intelligent who improve after the first half-minute.
“They are firing in half-minute intervals,” whispered Roddy.
They yelled in chorus, stopping at the end of every half-minute as if upon signal.
Nobody spoke for a half-minute; then Spurling broke the silence.
"Perhaps he had not the half-minute's warning in this case," said Lucy,—hypocrite that she was.
