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Example sentences for "half millions"

  • Belgium is a country with four and a half millions of inhabitants, or about one-half more than the State of New York.

  • Here then were two and a half millions lost.

  • Who gained the two and a half millions, thus sunk upon the hands of the creditors and the States?

  • From these established facts, reason cannot fail to make its inferences in favor of the two and a half millions of slaves in our republic.

  • Newman, that there were two and a half millions of Israelites.

  • What were these among the Jewish nation--a people numbering two and a half millions?

  • At the latter date the Colonies were estimated to cost three and a half millions a year, of which nine-tenths were contributed by the taxpayers at home, British and Irish.

  • But Mexico, as at present constituted, is an exceedingly small white civilized nation, if we exclude her four and a half millions of Indians.

  • What would be the effect of releasing from restraint three and a half millions of negroes, to bask in idleness, under the genial sunshine of the South, or to emigrate hither and thither, at will, with none to control their actions?

  • The whole commerce of Great Britain, in 1704, amounted, in value, to thirty-two and a half millions of dollars.

  • But the question how to raise these twelve and a half millions remained.

  • Once the treasury offered a national loan of two and a half millions, but it fell flat in the states that might have paid the most.

  • The amount of Treasury notes which it will be necessary to issue during the year on account of those funds being unavailable will, it is supposed, not exceed four and a half millions.

  • Up to the year 1795 the taxation of the country never exceeded one and a half millions of pounds, and the National Debt was not more than one million.

  • But a few years ago three and a half millions of human beings were held in our country in a state of abject bondage, deprived of every vestige of freedom and every trace of manhood.

  • It has now a population of thirty-eight and a half millions of people, and a territory of three and a half millions of square miles.

  • The number of members, not, however, exclusively drawn from the working classes, is said to have reached two and a half millions.

  • Fifty years have given the North an increased preponderance of about four and a half millions of free citizens.

  • You may change two and a half millions of domestic and implacable enemies into faithful friends and generous protectors.

  • It is said that the bounties paid are yearly about one and a half millions.

  • In 1860, the whites in the free States had increased to about eighteen and a half millions; and in the slave States, to about eight and a quarter millions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been done; half amused; half asleep; half days; half dollar; half hours; half inch; half knots; half laughing; half lemon; half miles; half million; half pound; half pounds; half quarts; half score; half smile; half tablespoon; half teaspoonful; half tons; half wide; human brotherhood; like processes; standard work; thousand times; went yesterday