Sentence examples for gathers half from inspiring English sources
Britain's voting systems: All Thursday's polls – how they work Alternative Vote referendum The chance of electing MPs by ranking candidates in order – with second (then third, etc) preferences shared out until one gathers half the vote – was a concession in the coalition agreement.
It has gathered half a billion e-mail addresses since it started four years ago, but most of those are no longer valid.
WASHINGTON — Each Saturday morning in July and August, Susan E. Rice, President Obama's new national security adviser, gathered half a dozen aides in her corner office in the White House to plot America's future in the Middle East.
Then we got to work: Lauren gathered half a dozen buckets of fresh snow and fed them into a giant pot on the propane cooktop to make drinking water, while I split some logs from a huge woodpile behind the cabin to feed the wood stove.
This is not once but 15 times in his case because he has now gathered half a dozen Wimbledon trophies, five from America, three from Australia and one from France, where Rafael Nadal's early exit this year opened the door for him to complete the set.
Abundant white gel was gathered half an hour later.
Another often-recounted story from his childhood is that of how, before having learned to count, when his mother asked him to gather half a bunch of betel leaves for her, ML Pin set down to picking up one leaf with each hand at a time, separating them equally into two piles.
She is working to organize a group of women vendors to collectively pay enough for a farmer to deliver a truckload of produce for them to sell; she has also gathered half of what she has left to give to other families who need it.
She said she gathered half-finished bottles from around her house and used them to fill the toilet tanks and water her vegetable garden.
It has gathered almost half a million online signatures, and gathering more was part of the reason for the conference Tuesday (Aug.
Mr. Cullen started to pick then up, but he had gathered just half a dozen or so by the time the girl had jumped into a cab and driven off.
