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Example sentences for "half hours"

  • Steam one and a half hours, and serve with yellow sauce.

  • Cover with a lid and allow to cook slowly for one and a half hours.

  • Cook one and one-half hours over a moderate fire, stirring sufficiently to prevent sticking.

  • Fill well-buttered moulds two-thirds full, butter the top of mould, and steam three and one-half hours.

  • In two and a half hours we covered two and a quarter miles, blindly blundering in an uncertain light among crests and troughs and through piles of soft, new snow.

  • The weather was quite as bad next morning, but, after a meal of dry biscuit and cocoa, they pushed on, taking four and a half hours to do the six miles.

  • I had been away eleven and a half hours, covering about seven miles in all.

  • He made some twelve hundred miles in about fifteen and a half hours.

  • Early in the morning he got on his way, and made New York in the afternoon, in not quite seven and a half hours.

  • They got to North Haven, Maine, in about three and a half hours.

  • He went by way of Cuckfield, and was ten hours on the road: four and a half hours going, five and a half hours returning.

  • A piece weighing eight pounds requires two and a half hours' boiling.

  • Bake two and one-half hours, basting with butter and water while baking.

  • As soon as it boils, skim well, and then simmer for one and one-half hours.

  • Boil the meat four hours, the beets three hours, the cabbage one and a half hours, squash and turnips three-quarters of an hour.

  • Bake in a tin pail with cover on for two and a half hours.

  • The 22nd of May saw Thani and Hamed's caravans united with my own at Chunyo, three and a half hours' march from Mpwapwa.

  • Welled Ngaraiso was reached on the 15th, after a three and a half hours' march.

  • Simmer two and one-half hours, then add two cups of vinegar, cook an hour longer.

  • Cover the dressing with the remainder of the nut mixture, pour over all one-half cup of cream, and bake for one and one-half hours.

  • Cover the kettle and keep the kettle boiling steadily for three and one-half hours.

  • Bake in a moderate oven for one and one-half hours.

  • The Norwich and Yarmouth Telegraph post coach was announced to run daily from the Angel Inn, Norwich, to the King's Head Inn, Yarmouth, in two and a half hours.

  • A man named Gibson, for a wager of 50 pounds, undertook to walk from Norwich to Yarmouth in seven and a half hours carrying 4 pounds worth of copper coins, weighing four stones four pounds.

  • Cartwright's six-oared boat from Norwich to Yarmouth in four hours against the tide, and returned in four and a half hours with a strong stream against them.

  • The next day we wiped out three in three and a half hours.

  • In an airplane, I could make it in two and a half hours, but Buddecke will not let me have any.

  • And what was the thanks I got for having sailed around over the enemy's lines for over two and a half hours?

  • We had quite a distance to fly and were under way two and a half hours.

  • It was a five and one-half hours’ mule-ride to Kandersteg at the foot on the other side.

  • Fourteen miles by rail and then a carriage again for a drive of two and a half hours.

  • The baby's food should now be given him every three and one-half hours up to ten p.

  • Feed the child every three and a half hours up to 10 p.

  • Because it takes nearly two hours to digest a meal at two months, about two and one-half hours at five or six months, and if another meal is given before the former meal is digested, vomiting and indigestion will result.

  • ALL ABOUT BABY 593] How soon can I make the intervals at two and one-half hours?

  • Cook directly over the flame for about five minutes, stirring constantly, and then cook over water for one and one-half hours.

  • Drain; cook in boiling salted water until tender, about one and one-half hours.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half hours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being still; fine trees; four leaves; full activity; half asleep; half days; half dollar; half dozen; half high; half knots; half length; half mile; half miles; half millions; half ounce; half pint; half smiling; half speed; half step; half tablespoon; half times; half years; homologous parts; right thinking; shaped flowers; taken away from them