The secondary characters all look and sound like stock figures in any office sitcom, but the show is nevertheless a pleasant, inoffensive half-hour, with a few amusing moments provided by Mr. Lane.

He sat back in his chair with the air of a man prepared to enjoy a pleasant half-hour.

Growing up in East Orange, N.J., she says, she spent many pleasant half-hours watching programs like "The Jeffersons," "Sanford and Son" and "Good Times."

We spend a pleasant half-hour chatting about him as well as the then-and-now of the glove industry.

We had a very pleasant half-hour conversation (the question "Are you going to wreck my apartment?"

There are plenty of other short hikes to undertake from Dhulikhel, but one of the best is the pleasant half-hour uphill from Dhulikhel to the telecommunication tower.

To Uncle Brian it meant a pleasant half-hour's run after a tiresome day in the office.

She spent a pleasant half-hour immersed to her ears in steaming water in the bath-house and returned to their room tightly wrapped in her Styric robe and carrying a candle to light her way.

So a pleasant half-hour was spent choosing some thing exactly right and if the professor was bored or impatient he concealed it very well.

I never spent such a pleasant half-hour in my life.