half the time

idiom

informal

: very often

Half the time I have no idea what my professor is talking about.

Examples of half the time in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Co-founder and CEO of Posterity Health, Pamela Pure, agreed, noting that half the time, there is a male factor issue at play. —Alena Botros, Fortune Well, 21 May 2024

In half the time, Musk grew revenues from $11.8 billion to $96.8 billion, and turned profitability from $2.2 billion in the red to a $15 billion profit, Denholm said. —Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 May 2024

Developers can buy land, build houses and fill them with families with school-age children in half the time schools can be planned, permitted and funded. —Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2024

Over the past four quarters, the company has beat analysts’ revenue targets half the time. —Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024

At the low end, two central Maine counties reduced them only about half the time; in Aroostook, that rate was 64 percent. —Callie Ferguson Ashley L. Conti, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024

Of this pool, 1,863 experienced hearing loss; 237 wore hearing aids regularly (at least once a week, five hours a week, or half the time), and 1,483 never wore hearing aids. —Kristen Fischer, Health, 10 Jan. 2024

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

Earlier research shows that, when asked to choose between two items, dogs pick the correct one about half the time — no better than a coin flip. —Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024