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• The facility, which pays $20 an hour to start, can now fill jobs in less than half the time.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
• In those same seven countries, on average, teachers taught for only half the time they were supposed to.
  — Jim Yong Kim, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
• The club has a swimmer now who finished the 25-meter freestyle in 14 seconds, half the time of all the other kids his age.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
• This yoga towel, available for less than $20 at Gaiam, absorbs twice as much cotton and dries in half the time.
  — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 24 July 2024
• That's less than half the time Starliner would normally take to leave the vicinity of the ISS.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
• The proof will be in the pudding, and half the time the pudding does not show up.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• The Aztecs have spent half the time aspiring to greater heights.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2023
• The end result: Your food is crispy, tender, and done in half the time.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• In the last three months, the cars were booked more than half the time, demonstrating the success of the program.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
• The lesson, if any, has been this: Through 20 games, the Lakers have been good enough more than half the time.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• But this is only half the time that her late majesty served the nation as our queen.
  — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• Maybe the name is short for Pony Express Scripts, but even at that, a three-legged mule could make the trip in half the time.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Don’t pin your faith on a water supply, which, for half the time, isn’t there.
  — André Naffis-Sahely, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• Roughly half the time, teams took more than five hours to respond.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• And in the last three seasons, it was used more than half the time against left-handed batters.
  — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• And in the last three seasons, it was used more than half the time against left-handed batters.
  — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• And one country has topped the ranking more than half the time, including this year.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
• Then one button stows the roof under a hatch at the rear of the cockpit in just 12 seconds, less than half the time of the next-best Mercedes.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• The result is a turkey that cooks in as little as half the time of a classic, un-spatchcocked bird.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2023
• Advertisement The lesson, if any, has been this: Through 20 games, the Lakers have been good enough more than half the time.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The firm plans to invest a nearly identical pot of money — this time, $1.3 billion — in half the time.
  — Allison Deangelis, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
• Yeagle was at the helm of Beechwood for 15 seasons and was a champion over half the time with eight state titles.
  — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2022
• Some diseases are missed at low rates, whereas others are missed more than half the time, researchers found.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• Boom predicts that the Overture will be able to serve more than 600 routes around the world in about half the time of subsonic commercial jets.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
• Imagine a skilled legal researcher who finds that an AI can match the quality of his reports, but in half the time.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• The vocals and guitars blast with the energy of a band trying to cram 40 minutes of earworms into half the time.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• Vegetable choppers can chop the same amount of veggies in half the time that most cooks can chop manually.
  — Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• In cases in which court records were available, police recovered firearms about half the time.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• These ships can be constructed from scratch in around half the time of a permanent onshore gas terminal and at 60% of the cost.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• Auburn is paying a coach $5.1 million to win half the time — and even less frequently in conference games.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024