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half-day
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
half-day
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As I said before, I could go to half-day school here.
▪ Both the advantages and disadvantages of the half-day kindergarten seem to circle around the issues of time and expense.
▪ Cost is $ 40 per person for the half-day excursions, and $ 70 for a full day, including lunch.
▪ In half-day kindergarten programs, school districts need only half the number of kindergarten teachers and kindergarten classrooms.
▪ Jurors resume their deliberations today after a half-day session Friday.
▪ The half-day course on the Census introduces the problems but does not attempt to discuss them in depth.
▪ The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works.
▪ This was usually in the form of one day or two half-day sessions.

Usage examples of "half-day".

The little group had returned to the tunnels of the Samia Range, spending a half-day getting there and another half picking their way through the cramped, stuffy darkness.

Besides, while he shared the general feeling of distaste for Psychological Service and its ways, he found Pilch herself and the prospect of spending a half-day or so in her company very attractive.

But, taking the inward and outward history of the first half-day into consideration, Hepzibah began to fear that the shop would prove her ruin in a moral and religious point of view, without contributing very essentially towards even her temporal welfare.

I estimated between ten and a dozen half-day surfacings would be about right.

Every time he had embraced a girl this disastrous half-day, the slim triangular face of Hisvin's daughter had got ghostily in the way, making the visage of his companion of the moment dull and gross by comparison, while from the tiny silver dart in his temple a feeling of sick boredom and unjoyful satiety had radiated through all his flesh.