noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a free day/morning/half-hour etc
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I haven’t got a free day this week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
spend
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But the distribution of the supplies involves a tortuous journey and an agonising delay.Faqir spends another half-hour trying to revive the engine.
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I spent a half-hour recently putting together the ultimate birthday gift for my 5-year-old niece.
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Bewildered, I went over to the table and spent the next half-hour stalwartly drinking the two bottles.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I got off work a half-hour ago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then it was a half-hour , then 40 minutes.
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In a half-hour audience the King's new National Government was created.
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Our hypothetical Ann could eat her packet of peanuts, for example, if she added three half-hour swims to her weekly routine.
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Probably walking for a half-hour through the terminal.
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She had gone well over the half-hour .
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The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.
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There were beautiful paintings, musical tributes to the island, a rousing half-hour of drumming.