After they speak, we will spend about half an hour or so taking your questions.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on Security Review

Companies talk of quick charging--quick meaning half an hour or so.

FORBES: Backseat Driver

After half an hour or so, the Tahoe drives up to a gated complex with a barbed wire fence and from there to a small low-lying building surrounded by a handful of Iraqis in jumpsuits.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But now and again I would go out to the old swimming hole, the place everybody called the Twenty Two, and spend half an hour or so in the water, not really swimming so much as hanging there, suspended in the rumor of coolness that rose from the depths below.

NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

They might draw you in with an idea of fun: usually, the first half-hour or so of a social game is the most jam-packed with progress and new abilities, but tedium and frustration gradually become the dominant experiences as you slog ahead in a game that ends in -ville.

FORBES: Can Social Games Be Fun?