Sentence examples for fetched as a from inspiring English sources

It's nearly as far fetched as a screenwriter, assigned to do a sequel to "Fatal Attraction," starting off the new script with the Michael Douglas and Glenn Close characters back together again.

These have included reports as far fetched as a Ukrainian fighter jet mistakenly shooting down the plane in an attempt to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In 2012, ivory fetched as much as $7,000 a kilogram in China, depending on its quality.

Among the drugs that the Medicaid recipients sold, prosecutors said, were some that fetched as much as $1,600 a bottle.

Venezuela signed the deals it now wants to repudiate in the 1990s, when oil fetched as little as $10 a barrel.

The classic short stories he wrote in the 1960s fetched as little as 18 cents a word for the first 2,000 words (about two full pages in the magazine) and only 9 cents for the remaining text.

It is an arduous way to make a living: their haul may fetch as little as a penny a pound.

If you have extraordinary purchasing power say you buy computer hardware for a mid-sized business then your name and address is worth more, about 15 cents, though your name and e-mail address might fetch as much a quarter.

And it will be fun watching them progress these next few weeks, offering a bit of history from the days when a tulip bulb could fetch as much as a fine town house in Amsterdam.

A collection of rare dictionaries, including a cuneiform tablet and a handwritten manuscript of Webster's original dictionary, is expected to fetch as much as a million dollars at auction next week.

By Andrea DenHoed November 28 , 2012A collection of rare dictionaries, including a cuneiform tablet and a handwritten manuscript of Webster's original dictionary, is expected to fetch as much as a million dollars at auction next week.