Usage examples of "a half an" in English with translation to German

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It takes us half an hour to walk to school. Wir brauchen eine halbe Stunde, um zur Schule zu laufen.
It's six of one and a half dozen of another. Das ist gehupft wie gesprungen.
The lake can be reached in half an hour by bus. Den See kann man in einer halben Stunde mit dem Bus erreichen.
In England the waiter asked us, "How much beer would you like, a half pint or a pint?" Having no idea how much that would be, we asked him to show us the glasses. In England fragte uns der Kellner: Wie viel Bier wollen Sie, ein halbes Pint oder ein Pint? Ratlos, wie viel das sein könnte, baten wir ihn, uns die Gläser zu zeigen.
He turned up half an hour late. Er kam eine halbe Stunde zu spät.
It took me an hour and a half to get there by car. Ich brauchte anderthalb Stunden um mit dem Auto dorthin zu kommen.
I have been waiting for almost half an hour. Ich warte seit fast einer halben Stunde.
Right now, it is a half past ten. Jetzt ist es halb elf.
It took me half an hour to work out this problem. Ich habe eine halbe Stunde gebraucht, dieses Problem zu lösen.
The play lasts two and a half hours. Das Stück dauert zweieinhalb Stunden.
Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead. Tatsächlich ist ein halbes Auge sehr nützlich, denn mit einem halben Auge kann ein Tier die Hälfte von einem anderen Tier sehen, das es auffressen will, und ihm aus dem Weg gehen, und es wird selber das Tier fressen, das nur ein Drittel-Auge oder nur 49% eines Auges hat, weil dieses ihm nicht schnell genug aus dem Weg gehen wird, und das Tier, das aufgefressen wurde, wird keine Kinder bekommen, weil es tot ist.
I think we should wait another half an hour. Ich glaube, wir sollten noch eine halbe Stunde warten.
The price of the stock declined by half in a month. Der Preis der Aktie fiel innerhalb eines Monats um die Hälfte.
The population of Italy is about half as large as that of Japan. Die Bevölkerung von Italien ist etwa halb so groß wie die von Japan.
Pharamp cut the cake in half. Pharamp schnitt den Kuchen halb auf!
A bold man has half the world. Ein kühner Mensch besitzt die halbe Welt.
Their financial problems began in the second half of the year. Ihre finanziellen Probleme begannen in der zweiten Jahreshälfte.
Don't leave your work half finished. Hinterlasse deine Arbeit nicht halb fertig.
The room's area is two and half square meters. Die Fläche des Raums misst zweieinhalb Quadratmeter.
Half of these apples are rotten. Die Hälfte der Äpfel sind verdorben.
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