Sentence examples for grew half from inspiring English sources

China's exports also grew half as fast as expected in April.

In the five years before the 1986 sequester, federal spending had grown 60%, while the budget deficit increased from $79 billion to $221 billion; but in the five years after sequester spending grew half as much (32%), and the deficit declined from $221 billion to $152 billion.

Over the past two years, the 54-year-old president not only lost 5 pounds but -- somewhat bizarrely -- grew half an inch, according to a medical report released Tuesday by the White House.

This means that sexual populations can only grow half as fast as asexual populations.

As tasty as they are, he said, Ossabaws are half the size of other breeds and grow half as fast.

Those unable to escape low pay saw their wages grow half as fast (at 3.6% a year in real terms).

In England, cypresses are only found in formal gardens, planted with mathematical precision and never growing half so elegantly.

He has two glass greenhouses where he grows half his stock from seed, the rest from cuttings.

"I think he's grown half a foot since we last saw him," she told her husband, Allen Richon.

Manchester, where the economy has grown half as fast since 2009, relies far more heavily on manufacturing, transport and hospitality than finance or real estate.

While Mr. Tilstra, from Steen, Minn., used to grow half soybeans and half corn, he now plants two-thirds of his land with corn.