They spent half the time looking for a parking space.

他们花了一半的时间寻找停车位。

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The workers were not better organized, otherwise they would have accomplished the task in half the time.

没有更好地把工人们组织起来，否则他们用一半的时间就能完成任务。

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"Half the time I wander around looking for something I can't remember what it is.

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It's a time of technological innovation, tremendous technological innovation, so much technological change that half the time it frightened people.

这还是个技术革新的时代,空前的技术革新,如此多的技术涌现,以至于人们有时候是对其感到恐惧的

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Machiavelli said in that famous chapter 25, that the prince, if he is lucky, will master fortuna about half the time, only about 50% of the time.

马基雅维利在有名的第25章里说，君主，如果他幸运的话，可以在一半的时间里掌握命运，仅仅是50%的时间。

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In 2008 the target ship managed to beat off a pirate assault half the time.

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And its battery is capable of recharging in about half the time of the first-generation LEAF.

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Of the 40 quarters Butters considered, Alcoa beat the Street exactly half the time.

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