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Emergency plans call for moving workers and equipment five days before gale-force winds are forecast to arrive at the half-square mile containment operation surrounding the blown-out well.

BP Oil Spill Cleanup Could Face Complications From Tropical Storm Alex, Weather 2010

Some time ago, I hosted a swap in the scrapquilting forum on delphi which involved blocks made with (in theory) only half-square triangle units.

Black and white(ish) giveaway katelnorth 2008

Emergency plans call for moving workers and equipment five days before gale-force winds are forecast to arrive at the half-square mile containment operation surrounding the blown-out well.

BP Oil Spill Cleanup Could Face Complications From Tropical Storm Alex, Weather 2010

Maria La Ganga of the Los Angeles Times recently reported that Rio Vista's neighbor, tiny Isleton -- a half-square mile town with just 817 residents -- is almost $1 million in the red and fighting to stave off bankruptcy, if not dissolution, due to its seemingly insurmountable debt.

Nick Turse: Tough Times in Troubled Towns 2009

And again, after pointing out (rightly) that B and D are both within the half-square containing A, she says,

A Tangled Tale 2003

At the comer of Trevelyan and Cemetery roads, four parcels of land met: the cemetery on the northwest corner; catercomered from that, the former Coggin acreage;: on the northeast, Boyd McBee's farm; on the southwest, a half-square mile of woodland placed in conservancy by the Klingenschoen Foundation - not to retard the growth of the city but to promote ecologically the well-being of the residents.

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

Street; if so, we are lost, as that is a half-square below us.

A Confederate girl's diary, 1913

There was still a half-square of the sidewalk privacy available, and she made what seemed to be the most necessary use of it.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

The final half-square lay behind them, and Mrs. Honoria and the senator,

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

We will now go one step further and deal with the half-square.

Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893