half the time
idiom
informal
: very often
Half the time I have no idea what my professor is talking about.
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This entire dry-to-style process takes around 20 minutes—at least half the time of my typical blow dryer/curling wand combo, with at least half the amount of heat damage.
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Malia Griggs, Glamour, 16 July 2024
The protocols were more rigid than clinical guidelines at least half the time for patients with hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis and psoriatic arthritis.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
The years between Stalin’s death and the fall of the Soviet Union represent more than half the time the Soviet Union existed but merit just three short chapters out of the 20 in Figes’ book.
—Keith Gessen, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2014
In the course of the 90-minute debate, Trump managed to offend Blacks, Hispanics and Palestinians even though his microphone was muted half the time.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 30 June 2024
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Malia Griggs, Glamour, 16 July 2024
The protocols were more rigid than clinical guidelines at least half the time for patients with hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis and psoriatic arthritis.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
The years between Stalin’s death and the fall of the Soviet Union represent more than half the time the Soviet Union existed but merit just three short chapters out of the 20 in Figes’ book.
—Keith Gessen, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2014
In the course of the 90-minute debate, Trump managed to offend Blacks, Hispanics and Palestinians even though his microphone was muted half the time.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 30 June 2024
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