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Definition of Last half
1. Noun. The second of two halves of play.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Last Half
Literary usage of Last half
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... not unsuitable—a review of the official statistics bearing on the progress of
the working- classes—the" masses of the nation—in the last half-century. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"During the last half-century, under the spreading influence of the High Church
movement, this sense of vocation has been specially cherished, and has found ..."
3. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Connecticut Council of Safety, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1880)
"Granted to his Honour the Deputy Governor fifty pounds, for his salary for the
last half of the current year, and the Treasurer of this Colony is ordered to ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... experiment from the new council in addition to the dreary piles of observations
which have cumbered all scientific libraries for the last half-century. ..."
5. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"This vast period includes the last half century of the- Roman Republic, and the
Roman Empire which existed for fifteen centuries until Constantinople was ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"Personal Memoirs: or Reminiscences of Men and Manners at Home and Abroad during
the last half century, with occasional Sketches of the Author's Life: being- ..."
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