Sentence examples for about half the auction from inspiring English sources

That's about half the auction volume in all of France.

Despite his "30 years of scrounging around in clay bins," he said, he had never heard of about half of the auction's consignors.

That's approximately half the auction volume in all of France.

About half the youths are unemployed.

A two-day sale of paintings and jewels in Dubai by Christie's in October yielded only about half of what the auction house expected.

The board of Manning Auctions owns about half the company's stock.

Auctions accounted for about half the global-art turnover of some sixty billion dollars, the rest being realized by the world's roughly three hundred and eighty thousand galleries and private dealers.

Solar producers dominated the auction, offering to supply electricity at about half the cost of coal-fired plants.

With the market in free fall, Normandy Real Estate Partners and Five Mile Capital Partners bought the building at a foreclosure auction 18 months ago for $660.6 million, or about half the price in 2006.

The bonds being sold in this auction have a face value of roughly $6 billion, about half the amount remaining in Maiden Lane II, according to the people.

About half the hands went up.