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half-life
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  • You have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself, and you will have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips.†   (source)
  • I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.†   (source)
  • The radioactive element used in the core was solinium 2, which had a half-life of fourteen seconds.†   (source)
  • All these centuries, they have clung to half-life, hiding, waiting to reclaim their power.†   (source)
  • For six years, Sobukwe lived a kind of half-life on the island; he was a free man who was denied his liberty.†   (source)
  • All up the coast I could see the signs of what the Combine had accomplished since I was last through this country, things like, for example-a train stopping at a station and laying a string of full-grown men in mirrored suits and machined hats, laying them like a hatch of identical insects, half-life things coming pht-pht-pht out of the last car, then hooting its electric whistle and moving on down the spoiled land to deposit another hatch.†   (source)
  • I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number.†   (source)
  • Plutonium-239 has a half-life of twenty-four thousand years.†   (source)
  • That was partially true as far as it went — but, if we had not faced all the problems before they arose, we were well aware of those that were constantly with us, and of those the main one was the need of dissembling, of leading all the time a suffocating half-life with our families.†   (source)
  • It's half-life is more than five thousand years.†   (source)
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  • Those TV's had a half-life of maybe two months.†   (source)
  • Something may have happened to the half-life that we don't know about.†   (source)
  • "The guy said plutonium has a half-life of twenty-four thousand years," said Cole.†   (source)
  • No good leaving it for the next corner, with the cobalt half-life over five years.†   (source)
  • More than five years, I should think—that's the half-life.†   (source)
  • She had known for some time that his wife and family were very real to him, more real by far than the half-life in a far corner of the world that had been forced upon him since the war.†   (source)
  • Presently, as time passed, the radioactivity would pass also; with a cobalt half-life of about five years these streets and houses would be habitable again in twenty years at the latest, and probably sooner than that.†   (source)
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