Sentence examples of "half hour" in English
It's funny how German can take a verb, cut it in half, and spread it over a five-clause sentence.
Es curioso cómo el alemán puede coger un verbo, partirlo en dos, y extenderlo por una oración de cinco proposiciones.
Five hundred soldiers were sent to the city, and less than half of them survived.
Quinientos soldados fueron enviados a la ciudad, sobreviviendo menos de la mitad de ellos.
Almost half the men in Great Britain regularly give chocolate to their partner, especially for their birthday.
Casi la mitad de los hombres en Gran Britania le regala regularmente chocolates a su pareja, sobretodo para su cumpleaños.
Our train was an hour late because of the heavy snow.
Debido a la fuerte nevada, nuestro tren llegó con una hora de retraso.
The Titanic's lifeboats only had enough space to carry about half of those on board.
Los botes salvavidas del Titanic solo tenían espacio suficiente para llevar a cerca de la mitad de los que iban a bordo.
The press conference is scheduled to begin one hour from now.
La conferencia de prensa está agendada para dar comienzo media hora más tarde.
We didn't know the box had holes in it. We lost half of the load along the way.
No sabíamos que la caja estaba agujereada. Perdimos la mitad de la carga a lo largo del camino.
He was silent for what seemed to me an hour.
Él se mantuvo en silencio por lo que me pareció una hora.
The area of a triangle is half of the area of the rectangle with equivalent base and height.
El área de un triángulo es la mitad del área del rectángulo con base y altura equivalentes.
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