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Example sentences for "half million"

  • The College of New Jersey, at Princeton, has received not less than one and a half million or two million dollars from the John C.

  • By the will of Mr. Stanford the University receives two and a half million dollars, but this bequest is not yet available.

  • As I speak to you, approximately one and a half million of our soldiers, sailors, marines, and fliers are in service outside of our continental limits, all through the world.

  • The Navy, including the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, has discharged over one and a half million.

  • The result of the experiment of buying four and a half million ounces of silver a month at its market value will be the best antidote against the purchase of the silver of the world at one-third more than its market value.

  • Free coinage means that we shall purchase not merely four and a half million ounces a month, but all the silver that is offered, come from where it may, if presented in quantities of one hundred ounces at a time.

  • We are safe in saying that the German army would not be reinforced during the second period by more than two and a half million men.

  • This would give about one-third of the Union to the four and a half million blacks, the one and a quarter million whites retaining two-thirds.

  • As a matter of fact there are in South Africa about one and a quarter million whites and four and a half million blacks.

  • The area set aside for native occupation (including mission reserves) and preserved for their use by Royal Letters Patent and by the South Africa Act, amount to nearly two and a half million acres, or about 15 per cent.

  • The broad fact, however, remains that during the short period of British rule the revenue rose from three and a half to seven and a half million florins, and the population from four to five and a half millions.

  • Oats one and three-fourths million and barley about one-half million bushels.

  • Wheat gives up five and one-half million bushels to the farmers each year.

  • It is valued roughly at about one and a half million dollars a year, is chiefly with Singapore, and is to a great extent carried in Trengganu-built ships, which latter also do some carrying trade for other states on the east coast.

  • In 1905 the Siamese government advanced two and a half million dollars to Kedah, to pay the debts of the state, which sum was refunded by the British Government on assuming the position of protector.

  • Foreign trade, which in 1909 reached the value of two and a half million dollars, is chiefly with Singapore.

  • The property's quite worth three and a half million," announced Courtney decisively, watching the face of Morton Washer as that calm player stared at the colonel's chips.

  • Two weeks ago Johnny took Courtney and Close and Washer and Colonel Bouncer up to the Bronx in my machine and arranged to sell them a subdivision for three and a half million dollars.

  • Over a half million copies of Le Petite Journal are sold daily.

  • In a single year nearly a half million land at Castle Garden.

  • State, the total cost having been under one and a half million sterling.

  • The value of the mining output for 1912 was about thirty-two and a half million dollars.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    during which; half aloud; half calf; half company; half cups; half dollar; half full; half hours; half interest; half knots; half long; half miles; half million; half ounce; half past; half pound; half pounds; half share; half tablespoon; half the; half thick; half tons; half wide; make like; publishing house; this treatise