Sentence examples for grew by half from inspiring English sources

By contrast, in the first two years of this recovery, it grew by half that amount.

Apollo's assets under management grew by half in the quarter, to $113 billion.

But over the whole year, shipments grew by half and Samsung won market share from Apple at the pricier end of the market.

The revision means that the euro zone grew by half the United States's 0.6 percent rate and far less than Japan's 1.1 percent.

The worldwide tally of millionaires (with financial assets of at least $1 million, excluding the value of their homes) grew by half a million to 7.7m in 2003.

Donations to the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican National Committee grew by half or more over the same period of 1999, the last nonelection year.

The south's population will have grown by half to 320 million.

The number of people visiting the local soup kitchen, Loaves and Fishes, had grown by half.

Since then, the city's population has grown by half, to 32,000 from 21,000.

Since then, the combined force has grown by half that size again — by more than 86,000 troops.

In 2009, Forbes estimated his wealth at $1.9 billion; by 2012, his net worth had grown by half a billion dollars.