half a minute/second

idiom

: a short while : a moment

Please wait (for) half a minute/second while I try to connect you.

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Douglass won the gold by surpassing Zhang Yufei by half a second, 24.94. —

Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024 And so really showing at giving this moment where the Elves and Orcs could have been friends and for half a second the ring could have brought that. —

Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024 The Internet nearly lost its mind when Sevigny was revealed to have a surprise cameo with less than half a minute left in the video. —

Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024 Donut pinned Prichinich to the ground and snapped at him for about half a minute before a worker outside the cage prodded the bear and allowed the trainer to get back to his feet. —

Peter Aitken, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for half a minute/second

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half again as much/many as

half a minute/second

half-and-half

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