Sentence examples for a half a point from inspiring English sources

"We came within a half a point," Mickelson said.

Prices of most actively traded municipal bonds dipped by a quarter to a half a point, traders said.

If your interest rate is at least a half a point higher than today's rates, it may make sense to refinance regardless of how much cash you need.

Someone with a $225,000 mortgage, fixed at 4.5 percent over 30 years, looking to shave a half a point from the interest rate, would need around three-and-a-half years to start saving money, Mr. Rosenbaum said.

Perhaps the debate was worth a half a point or a full point for Mr. Obama — these trends would be more difficult to distinguish from statistical noise — but it probably wasn't worth much more than that.

"You look at the way some of the guys were down and then they turned it to grab a half a point and, as we know, those half-points add up at the end of the week".

A half-a-point penalty would be in place whenever a phylogenetically predicted mismatch was replaced by a canonical or G U/U G base pair, or vice versa.

The Dow Jones industrial average slipped nearly 50 points, while the other major indexes were down about a half a percentage point.

The rate was cut by a half a percentage point.

Both were less than a half a percentage point short of the previous summer high.

Because the margin of victory was less than a half a percentage point, a manual recount was required.