half-year

When he was in meetings during the first half-year and staffers would hit the Bush team, Gates wondered, “Am I invisible?”

In peregrines, which are notoriously slow and bad moulters, it may last a half-year.

There is an examination at the end of every half-year, and a boy must pass it well in order to get into a higher form.

During the half-year since he had seen her June had been transformed.