At the start of World War II, after war was declared, very little happened for half a year.
He was in a coma for two weeks, the hospital for two months and a rehabilitation center for half a year.
Bernd Hieber manages a Mexican restaurant in the southern city of Stuttgart, which has had a ban in place for half a year now.
She wants parental leave when a baby is born to be reformed along mainly Nordic lines: ring-fencing half a year off for mothers and another half-year for fathers, on a use-it-or-lose-it basis.
And if we think we're going to send them there for a year-and-a-half and then bring them back, and then send another group there for a year-and-a-half and bring them back, Washington will find another way to spend that money.
Joe was 30 years old and had worked at the company for about half a year.
On his return to Pakistan in 1993, he is arrested and jailed for about half a year on murder and sedition charges.
Creative developer ZodTTD tried to bring the magic of Playstation to phones before it was ever officially announced, and his app, PSX4Droid had been on the Android market for almost half a year.
The trade deficit for the first FY half was JPY 3.2 trillion (USD 41 billion), the largest deficit ever for a half year.
It took so long for electronic ink screens to finally hit the market we feel a bit silly getting impatient for the next-generation, but the Kindle has been on the market for a year and a half now, Sony Reader models for twice that long, and still we're dealing with the same crummy 7:1 contrast ratio, 16 shade grayscale, and .74 second refresh rate.
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Between January and June Japanese firms made 262 foreign acquisitions, according to Recof, a consultancy: a record for the first half of a year.
About 40 percent of those have been out of work for more than half a year.
The Dish chairman ended up wearing braces on his teeth for a year and a half.
Patients in the trial took Tysabri for a year and a half, on average.
"It beat working at McDonald's, and I did that for a year and a half, " he says.
Merck's Arcoxia study, begun in 2002, followed 44, 000 patients for a year and a half, on average.
They had been married for a year and a half and were about to start fertility treatment.
For a year and a half, commentator Lauretta Hannon lived on the east side of Savannah, Georgia.
Campbell lived with her grandmother for a year and a half and was "great with me, " she said.
One of them wanted me to babysit for a year and a half.
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We talked about a lot of things, and I had been there for about a year and a half or so.
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Just a decade ago, GIST patients lived for only a year and a half, and there was little doctors could do.
He quit to join the European tennis circuit for a year and a half, winning the Swiss nationals and even playing at Wimbledon.
Deutch, who was President Clinton's CIA director for a year and a half in the mid-1990s, lost his security clearance for mishandling classified information.
The precious metals were supported by safe-haven buying amid the EU debt crisis that has been playing out for a year and a half.
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There had been no U.S. presence in the center of Husayba for a year and a half -- only minor operations on the city's outskirts.
Carol flailed around for a year and a half draining managerial talent before she got her sea legs under and truly grasped the company she was leading.
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For instance, half a year of student teaching strikes me as a huge and unnecessary barrier to entry into the teaching profession for many people who work in other fields already.
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