What is "last half"

Usage examples of "last half".

Harry walked alongside him, feeling the aches and pains in his face and his legs where the various hexes of the last half hour had hit him, though in an oddly detached way, as though somebody near him was suffering them.

Please don't insult me by saying the last half century of violence was all our fault.

In the last half-hour, he had told her more about himself than in the whole of the four years she had known him.

The Cossack had been in far worse case than even Reynolds, and understandably so: for the last half of the distance between Szekszard and Pecs -- almost twenty miles -- he had been perched outside the truck, jammed between fender and bonnet, keeping the screen completely clear for the Count as he had driven through the blinding snow.

Until within the last half century they were generally supposed in Europe to be the productions of different plants.

It's a card they've played often in the last half-century, always successfully, and all that stands in their way is the Star Kingdom of Manticore ant its threadbare allies.

He checked his watch as he had checked it repeatedly over the last half-hour.

Many look upon the last half of life chiefly as a period for enjoyment of other sorts.

He checked his watch as he had checked it repeatedly over the last half hour.