Sentence examples for grows by half from inspiring English sources

There will be 568 deaths, 813 births and the arrival of 1,370 people from the countryside - each year, the city limits are pushed further outwards as the urban population grows by half a million, the equivalent of all the people in Luxembourg being added to the municipal register.

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

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.

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

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.

In the same period, the number of bombs and missiles aimed at insurgents has grown by half.

Pu'er today has 28,000 hectares (70,000 acres) of coffee, twice as much as in 2009, and that is projected to grow by half again by 2015.

Its metropolitan area has grown by half a million residents since 2000, and the population is predicted to increase from 2.7m in 2005 to 4.3m by 2035.