It's half past seven on Monday morning: time to get ready for school.

现在是星期一早上七点半：该准备上学了。

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Classes start at half past seven.

七点半钟开始上课。

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It's half past seven.

现在七点半。

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By the time she looked at the alarm, it was getting on for half past seven, and the boys were still noisy, loud against the weather.

NEWYORKER: Wasps

American exports of horsemeat for human consumption have fallen by more than half in the past seven years, and the number of horses slaughtered is a quarter of what it was a decade ago.

ECONOMIST: From plain to plate

America's financial-services firms have shed almost half a million jobs since the peak in December 2006, more than half of them in the past seven months.

ECONOMIST: Rebuilding the banks