Sentence examples for a half thanks from inspiring English sources

Now you can make it in an hour and a half, thanks to Huey, but the Court has stayed in New Orleans, mostly from habit.

On the retail front, shares of Sears Holding fell 4.8%, or $3.25, to $63.87, despite cutting its second-quarter loss by more than a half, thanks to the improved balance sheet of its Kmart chain.

It'll cost roughly $140 and weighs about a pound and a half thanks in part to the power cord that plugs directly into the unit, eliminating the clumsy brick apparatus.

Now it takes a day-and-a-half, thanks to an upgrade of the Friendship Highway, as the China-Nepal road is called, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

For their part, Croatia appeared happy with a point after struggling to match a slick Italian side who dominated the first half thanks to a midfield masterclass from the evergreen Pirlo.

He received word that his sentence had been reduced by two-and-a-half years, thanks to a new law.

TalkSport owner UTV Media's pre-tax profits jumped more than 60% in the first half, thanks to a World Cup ad spend boost and an improving economy.

One leading French official reckons the answer is half thanks to a tradition of cautious borrowing, and half thanks to stricter rules.

However the Nerazzurri were level with the last action of the half thanks to a spectacular goal from Guarin, who found the net with a bicycle kick.

French officials told the judges this figure had since dropped by half "thanks to a major public information campaign carried out at the time".

Midcap insurer Chaucer Holdings rose 3.3% to 46.5p after it revealed pre-tax profits quadrupled to £17m in the first half thanks to a surge in the returns on its investments.