Sentence examples for half residents from inspiring English sources

About half of its million and a half residents came from their native towns and villages sometime in the last quarter century, looking for work in the foreign assembly plants known as maquiladoras.

So, as half-resident, half-visitor, I am getting to know you, really getting to know you.

More than half its residents are expatriates.

Almost half its residents were unemployed.

Nearly half the residents are classed as deprived.

The term is used a lot these days: about half the residents of Dodge City are Hispanic.

More than half the residents are of foreign origin, chiefly Algerian, Moroccan and sub-Saharan African.

Half the residents of the complex of 100 apartments had voted early, Ms. Barfield said.

Chicago rebuilt quickly, reached more than a half million residents in 1880, and accomplished construction miracles.

The colony was Dutch, but more than half its residents were not.

An epidemic of bacterial dysentery ensued; nearly half the residents became ill and seven people died.