How to Use half a minute/second in a Sentence

half a minute/second

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• The group then went on to play around half a minute of the norteño track.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 21 May 2024
• In just half a minute, more than three dozen gunshots echoed through the crowded streets.
  — Mark Berman and Todd C. Frankel, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• With this technique, small birds pass out within seconds and die in about half a minute.
  — Federico Rios, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• All the helicopter had to do was take off, hover for about half a minute, and then land.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 21 Apr. 2021
• Young saw one performer reel off the names of all 50 states in under half a minute.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2022
• Neely is mostly still, but half a minute later tries to struggle out of the headlock.
  — Jake Offenhartz and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
• Instead, the Pacers took their first lead of the game with less than half a second to go.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
• Other codas may last only one-third of a second or half a second.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• And our system is designed to have latency of less than half a second.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
• Once the referee blows his whistle, Toney takes less than half a second to start his run-up.
  — Jay Harris, The Athletic, 9 July 2024
• Lewis is behind me, within half a second of beating me to victory.
  — Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Ireland's Daniel Wiffen out-touched him by just over half a second.
  — Selene San Felice, Axios, 31 July 2024
• Unfortunately most are snippets of half a minute in length, barely enough time to engage us.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
• The Wings went on a power play half a minute after that goal, and gave up a shorthanded chance to Roslovic.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2023
• The process, which reportedly takes no more than half a minute, is demonstrated in the following video.
  — Ben Coxworth may 06, New Atlas, 6 May 2025
• Scientists would record six distinct bolts of lightning hammering a single spot in the space of half a second.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• With Utah up by one and about half a minute to go, Jared drove the lane, drew the defense, and kicked it back to Johnny.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
• Last meet of the season, a result decided by half a second, Oblad sees the parallels.
  — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2022
• In The Bear, Keller expertly scrapes, tugs, and extracts the chicken's wishbone in about a half a minute.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 28 June 2024
• The Internet nearly lost its mind when Sevigny was revealed to have a surprise cameo with less than half a minute left in the video.
  — Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
• And so really showing at giving this moment where the Elves and Orcs could have been friends and for half a second the ring could have brought that.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
• Taking off more than half a second from Sarah Sjostrom's record set at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
  — Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Donut pinned Prichinich to the ground and snapped at him for about half a minute before a worker outside the cage prodded the bear and allowed the trainer to get back to his feet.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2024
• The single-serve coffee maker, designed in partnership with DeLonghi, is compact and works in less than half a minute.
  — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2020
• There was roughly half a minute between when local law enforcement radioed that Crooks had a gun and shots were fired, according to Rowe.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
• He’s spent years trying to get here, qualifying for the 2020 race, which was cancelled, then missed the cutoff by half a second last year.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• Yet, the sprawling warehouse in the film’s final shot had to command the screen for nearly half a minute and took the artist Michael Pangrazio three months to complete.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2021
• The Bulls appeared to have that game clinched with half a second left in overtime after DeRozan was fouled on a 3-pointer and hit all three free throws.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
• With the Whalers nursing a five-point lead and in possession of the ball with less than half a minute left on the clock, Wolgemuth didn’t want her scorching-hot night to stop.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2022
• The big story China’s foreign ministry press hall in Beijing fell silent for close to half a minute on Monday afternoon.
  — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025