How to Use half a minute/second in a Sentence

half a minute/second

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  • The group then went on to play around half a minute of the norteño track.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 21 May 2024
  • And of course, GPT-3 wrote its version of the essay in half a second.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Young saw one performer reel off the names of all 50 states in under half a minute.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2022
  • In just half a minute, more than three dozen gunshots echoed through the crowded streets.
    — Mark Berman and Todd C. Frankel, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • With Utah up by one and about half a minute to go, Jared drove the lane, drew the defense, and kicked it back to Johnny.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
  • All the helicopter had to do was take off, hover for about half a minute, and then land.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The Wings went on a power play half a minute after that goal, and gave up a shorthanded chance to Roslovic.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2023
  • In The Bear, Keller expertly scrapes, tugs, and extracts the chicken's wishbone in about a half a minute.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 28 June 2024
  • With this technique, small birds pass out within seconds and die in about half a minute.
    — Federico Rios, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Neely is mostly still, but half a minute later tries to struggle out of the headlock.
    — Jake Offenhartz and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • And our system is designed to have latency of less than half a second.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Yet, the sprawling warehouse in the film’s final shot had to command the screen for nearly half a minute and took the artist Michael Pangrazio three months to complete.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • The Bulls appeared to have that game clinched with half a second left in overtime after DeRozan was fouled on a 3-pointer and hit all three free throws.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • With the Whalers nursing a five-point lead and in possession of the ball with less than half a minute left on the clock, Wolgemuth didn’t want her scorching-hot night to stop.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Other codas may last only one-third of a second or half a second.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • Last meet of the season, a result decided by half a second, Oblad sees the parallels.
    — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2022
  • That’s almost half a second quicker than the latest 2024 Mustang Dark Horse.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2023
  • He’s spent years trying to get here, qualifying for the 2020 race, which was cancelled, then missed the cutoff by half a second last year.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • With half a second to showtime, Colbert commands the Daniels to bury his double's body and breaks through the wall himself to thunderous applause.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Scientists would record six distinct bolts of lightning hammering a single spot in the space of half a second.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • Overall, the reaction time is anywhere between 0.1 to half a second.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
  • The single-serve coffee maker, designed in partnership with DeLonghi, is compact and works in less than half a minute.
    — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Unfortunately most are snippets of half a minute in length, barely enough time to engage us.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The city has contracted with a company that can bring interpreters of 286 languages to the phone within half a minute, officials said.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2021
  • That record was beaten by approximately half a minute later that same day.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The digital lock can store up to 10 different fingerprints, unlocks in less than half a second and is rechargeable by USB-C port.
    — Bellamy Richardson, wsj.com, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The crew only began the escape sequence after waiting almost half a minute, at an altitude of 1,500 feet.
    — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2015
  • Yet here’s Israel, half a minute from an authoritarian (almost) apartheid (already) state and mums the word on billions in aid.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • The Republican leader froze up while answering a reporter’s question for the second time in just over a month, standing silently for around half a minute.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • To serve the dish, spoon the rice into bowls, add a nubbin of butter to each one, let the butter melt for half a minute, then let each diner sprinkle several drops of soy sauce onto the rice before eating.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021

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