Lord Wigley told a dinner to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lloyd George's birth: "I also had the honour of representing Caernarfon for half that time - just 27 years - I clearly didn't have the stamina which Lloyd George exhibited - in so many aspects of his life!"
It was very unprofitable for half of that time.
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For nearly half that time, Theodore Roosevelt was president.
This is not a time for half measures that simply won't reduce teen smoking.
Elsewhere, spending on construction projects in the U.S. fell in January for the first time in half a year, an indication that the market for builders remains shaky.
That for the first time ever, under half the population in Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire now speak Welsh, that Welsh is the majority language in Gwynedd and Anglesey, nowhere else and that there too, the figures show a sharp drop in the numbers of Welsh speakers.
In a 2011 survey of corporate onboarding practices by the Society for Human Resource Management, about half of respondents said that limited time and insufficient human-resources staffing prevented them from offering formal programs for new hires.
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But, just a minute later, there was an even bigger bonus when Witt slipped in for a second try just seconds before the half-time hooter, improving that one too to carve a 13-0 interval lead for Noble's men.
She drank her apple juice and looked at the crowds moving past, at faces that seemed completely knowable for half a second or so, then were forgotten forever in far less time than that.
The bank also said that for the first time more than half its annual earnings came from its business in Latin America.
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Sexton tagged on the tricky conversion for a 10-point buffer at half-time, and it was his half-break that ignited Leinster's attack again for their bonus point try.
Laws also fined midfielder Kevin McDonald for leaving Turf Moor without permission at half-time during that game.
When you flip a coin, for instance, you know that the odds are that half the time heads will come up and half the time tails.
Chelsea led 1-0 at half time in a game that stammered and stuttered for the first 45 minutes.
DeIuliis says the price of natural gas will rebound over time and that coal will once again account for half the nation's electricity.
The Bank of China, the least bad of the country's four big banks, expects that in five years' time consumers will account for half of the bank's loans.
She is also grateful to have a job that pays time and a half plus bonus pay for overnight hours, even if it means she can't fly home to her own family for the holidays.
On the stroke of half-time the Wildcats proved that they were up for the fight when Hudson and Hughes combined for winger Neil Law to squeeze in at the corner and Graham Law's superb touchline kick reduced the arrears to just 22-20 points at the half-time hooter.
And the one thing that no one really talks about that I just think is going to be a really big difference is that the Patriots for the first time in two and a half months are going to be playing a game where weather is not a factor.
Yesterday, the Census Bureau reported that, for the first time, married people have dropped below half of households, to 48%.
In 2003, for the first time, more than half of Europe's citizens told pollsters that their country's membership of the EU was not a good thing.
At half-time, Ancelotti also brought Alex on for John Terry, meaning that Benayoun's injury forced the Blues to play the final 28 minutes of the match with 10 men.
But in the next few weeks, half a dozen US states are expected to pass legislation that will for the first time protect companies which value their social impact as much as the bottom line.
Jorge Zorkic, deputy director of Beta News Agency, one of half a dozen agencies in Belgrade offering online news, said that for the first time, many of the country's educated elite had access to locally generated and uncensored news and political analysis.
And, again, go back to my health care analogy -- we had an issue that had been something that scientists had talked about for quite some time, is through half of the process in getting the House to agree on a bill.
Richmond's half-marathon sold out Friday for the first time ever, and Randolph said that next Sunday's would be the most crowded marathon in the event's 35-year history.
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But either side of that - and the opportunities for Paul Robinson and Schofield either side of half-time - the game was generally well controlled by the hosts.
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"I made the decision at half-time that I didn't think he was contributing enough for the team and I felt that James Morrison could maybe add something and I firmly believe that he did and he has played his way into my plans with that performance in the second half, " said the Scotland coach.
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