"It's time for me to look at the next half of my professional life."
Making money was the first half of his life; giving it away took up the latter 40 years.
"That's for the next half of my life to deal with," she finally continues.
"I created the second half of my life here," she says.
It means there's still a century and a half of my life that you can't tell me about.
Nevertheless, I'd spent a year and a half of my life on something.
She is working on a book about the second half of Richard's life.
He had, in fact, only begun the second half of his life.
She spent the first half of her working life in academia.
It was the worst hour and a half of my life.