But a good half of each twenty-second increment was typically taken up with preliminaries and formalities.
The over-size glasses covered a good half of the mannequin's face, coming almost down to its lips.
The action is also painfully repetitive: A good half of the game is spent driving a horse and cart from one location to the other.
But, as opinion polls have found, and Mr Netanyahu apparently missed, a good half of the country was uncomfortable with his decision to exercise that claim right now, at Har Homa, in the teeth of Palestinian, other Arab and international opposition.
To write a good program you need a good block of time, half a day at least.
But the trend is upwards (from a low of 34% in May 2005), and the numbers are likely to be better now after a strong legislative session and a tide of good press, even in the conservative eastern half of the state.
ECONOMIST: Washington's governor: Recovering from a bitter victory | The
"I thought we had a very good first half but they put a lot of pressure on us and the things we did so well in the first half, we didn't do in the second half, " said Springbok assistant coach Dick Muir.
Preston tried desperately to pull themselves back level in the closing stages of the half, Cresswell forcing a good save out of Alec Chamberlain with a low angled drive in the 40th minute.
There were Caterpillar, Owen-Illinois and many other plants (many of the now gone) where they could work, earning good wages (of a half century ago) and benefits.
Of that 25% though, half did have something of a good reason.
Hunt smashed in a fine strike right on the stroke of half-time to force a good save from Loach but the England Under-21 man got right behind it to hold on.
It sold 20, 000 vehicles last year, good for a mere half-point of market share in China.
"I thought we did a really good job in the first half of being aggressive, " Mosqueda-Lewis said.
Reds keeper John Connolly made a series of good first-half saves while Colin Coates cleared off the Crues line.
Fast forward five-and-a-half years and the good work of ship-steadying by Walter Smith and then Alex McLeish has been ripped apart.
Ong cites Lear, his avant-garde interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy flavored with elements of Indonesian martial arts, Noh drama and Beijing opera -- and performed in different languages by a multi-national cast, half Singaporean, a good part Japanese, with a sprinkling of other Asians.
"Perhaps a good chunk -- a solid half -- died from sickness and lack of health care, " he said.
The spirit was good in the first half, we did not have a lot of chances but we worked hard and had good tactical discipline.
England had shown a fighting spirit throughout but when they established a couple of good attacking positions deep in the All Blacks' half they lacked the cutting edge required to open up the visitors' solid defence.
We spend a lot of our time being stopped out of half of our positions, but good traders are the ones that can lose the best.
Others have pointed out the mistakes the Germans made regarding Barbarossa and their supplies and equipment, but had the operation kicked off on schedule (about a month and a half before it actually began), the Wehrmacht would have had a good chance of being in Moscow before the worst of the winter hit.
FORBES: What Were The Biggest Strategic Mistakes The Germans Made During World War II?
Chelsea spent the latter stages camped out in Rosenborg's half, but a combination of good fortune, safe handling from Hirschfeld and stout defending kept Mourinho's side at bay.
The visitors put together a good few passages of play in the Bristol half, allowing Cook to narrow the deficit to just four points with his second penalty after 24 minutes.
According to opinion polls, this means there is a good chance that Ms Park could become the first female president of a country where only half of women work and a tenth of politicians are female.
But Mexico's government pays 15%, and compared to paying cash for a house-something more than half of all Mexicans are forced to do-it's a pretty good deal.
However, only just over half of households in Shetland have a good level of broadband access.
The Monadnock is a good place to get a practical sense of how quickly these innovations were catching on: the original northern half of the building consists of traditional load-bearing walls that are 6ft thick at the bottom, while the southern half, constructed only two years later, uses the then-revolutionary metal frame for drastically thinner walls that go just as high.
In the first half, I didn't do a good job of reading the defense.
"We made a good run in the first half, we played our style of basketball, " Terry said.
应用推荐