How to Use half the time in a Sentence

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• Choose these whole-grain foods at least half the time.
  — Leeann Weintraub, Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
• Ohtani is striking out nearly half the time.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• The umpire's calls were overturned just over half the time.
  — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
• Roughly half the time, teams took more than five hours to respond.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• In short, all the deep and rich flavors of gumbo in half the time.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
• But this is only half the time that her late majesty served the nation as our queen.
  — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• The proof will be in the pudding, and half the time the pudding does not show up.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• Don’t pin your faith on a water supply, which, for half the time, isn’t there.
  — André Naffis-Sahely, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• The Aztecs have spent half the time aspiring to greater heights.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2023
• About half the time people report chills without any bumps at all.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2025
• Use this to make two thin 4-inch cookies in half the time required by hand irons.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
• Tests of defenses against long-range missiles have failed about half the time.
  — William Hartung, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• As a result, efforts to replant what’s been lost fail about half the time.
  — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
• Long story short, your morning coffee will make it to your mug in half the time.
  — New Atlas, 18 Dec. 2025
• So, in total, that would be a year and six months, about half the time between the first two seasons.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Some models affirm signs of psychosis more than half the time when prompted.
  — Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
• And one country has topped the ranking more than half the time, including this year.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
• In half the time, Paxton sued twice as much during Biden's four years.
  — Megan Stringer, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
• Disconnections are common mid-match and the join-in progress doesn’t work half the time.
  — Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
• Some diseases are missed at low rates, whereas others are missed more than half the time, researchers found.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• In the last three months, the cars were booked more than half the time, demonstrating the success of the program.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
• The facility, which pays $20 an hour to start, can now fill jobs in less than half the time.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
• Walters used his fastball half the time, with an almost equal spit of the other two pitches.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• This efficient device gives you the volume and shine of a salon-style blowout in half the time.
  — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
• The fish was engineered to grow in half the time of a wild Atlantic salmon and with one-third of the food.
  — Thomas Bostick, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
• Challenges were successful just about half the time in Triple-A last year.
  — John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025
• The result is a turkey that cooks in as little as half the time of a classic, un-spatchcocked bird.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2023
• In cases in which court records were available, police recovered firearms about half the time.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• Overall, the lawyers surveyed reported feeling burnt out more than half the time.
  — Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
• This type of formula will help the paint to form a film in about half the time, while protecting the finish.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Jan. 2026