half the time

phrase

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

Astrolab said moving infrastructure by just 50 meters could result in hundreds of additional hours of darkness or reduce near-continuous visibility of Earth to roughly half the time. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

Researchers at NewsGuard recently found that leading AI chatbots are citing pink-slime websites nearly half the time when users ask questions about candidates and issues in the midterm elections. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

While offenses punt on those drives nearly half the time, the league average is 33% for scoring points. — Sam Jane, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026

But half the time, the people that are interacting with different things online are children, not even people our age. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for half the time

• aforetime
• allozyme
• anytime
• christmastime
• cybercrime
• dinnertime
• guggenheim
• isozyme
• lysozyme
• maritime
• mesenchyme
• overtime