Sentence examples for fetch half of from inspiring English sources

— The for-sale signs on horse farms are as common as the bluegrass and the limestone fences here, and breeders have grown accustomed to sending horses through the auction ring and feeling fortunate when they fetch half of their asking price — or anything at all.

Sadiq Zafar A woman attempts to fetch half a bucket of mud-infested water in the village of Siddique Laskani, Badin District, Pakistan.

But these plans fetch half the profit margin of commercial health insurance.

In the 1630s a string of one thousand copper coins equaled an ounce of silver; by 1640 that sum could fetch half an ounce; and, by 1643 only one-third of an ounce.

For a long time, it's been possible to comfort ourselves that the trend reflected the insanity of the London housing market, where a fair size shed in the right part of the capital can fetch half a million.

A first edition of Poe's "Tamerlane and Other Poems" is expected to fetch half a million dollars at auction today.

Access to all that doesn't come cheap; one-bedroom apartments fetch half a million dollars.

There, buyers pay $1 million for a property that might fetch half that elsewhere.

Dressed in T-shirts and plumbers' coveralls, they lined up at a small window, fetching half-liters of Vendelin, a honey-colored lager, as if it were liquid gold, even though the price of 15 koruna (roughly $.70) was only about half the usual rate for a Czech beer.

The last one they put up fetched half a million.

Biden had grown up with two parents, three siblings, and a Sunday routine: "Dad would give me a dollar, and I'd pedal off to Cutler's Pharmacy to fetch a half-gallon of Breyers ice cream.