Sentence examples for half of payments from inspiring English sources

Every corner of the Bremmers' house reveals the extent to which their lives were built on his: a microphone dangling from the ceiling of the den, which served as his recording studio; a life-size plastic skeleton, for the study of anatomy, in the dining room; a grand piano on which Patti and Martin still have another year and a half of payments to make.

G.M. wants to substitute stock for up to half of its payments, as the U.A.W. has agreed to let Ford do with up to $6.5 billion of its payments.

About half of their payments come from the government, which is fighting to contain costs.

William G. Gale of the Brookings Institution calculates that about half of such payments escape taxation.

Farmers in just six states -- Iowa, Illinois, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota -- will receive almost half of these payments.

More than half of the payments have gone to "down winders" who were exposed to radiation through bomb tests.

But he said about half of the payments were for services the broker provided, like claims processing, that Willis would continue to provide at a flat fee.

Research shows that, although payments are promoted as a direct and simple means to allay child poverty by putting money into the hands of needy mothers, nearly half of the payments go to families with above-average incomes.

Mr. Howard's government had been criticized for an intervention in the Northern Territory that curtailed the rights of many indigenous communities, including quarantining half of welfare payments to ensure they were spent on food.

Yahoo owns a 24% stake in Alibaba, a business-to-business e-commerce company that is used for a huge number of transactions inside China: it is said to be responsible for the contents of 60% of the parcels delivered there, and its Alipay service for about half of online payments in China.

Visa believes that by 2020 more than half of all payments made in Europe will be done through mobile devices, so it is continuing to put more investment into how it will remain a central part of those transactions.