Sentence examples for half the dollars from inspiring English sources

However, he also tolerated a legal parallel market that kept the country supplied with hard currency at a higher rate (providing countless opportunities for arbitrage).Last year he closed that market and created a new state body, which provides just over half the dollars that the old system did, at a price of 5.3 bolívares.

Currently, close to half the dollars spent on food are spent on meals away from home.

TV and print were oversubscribed, while mobile received less than half the dollars it seemingly deserves.

But Dollar Tree Stores shed about half the dollars in its market capitalization after the discount retailer warned that its fourth-quarter results will disappoint.

So even if the yuan were to rise by a half, the dollar would only fall by 5%.

About half of the dollars invested in clean technology last year went to alternative energy companies.

Burns loves the deal: He keeps creative control and gets more than half of the dollars that come in.

Almost half the dollar amount of the deduction is claimed by those with incomes above $200,000.

Half the dollar value of tax breaks lost under the AMT in 2000 came from state and local taxes, which aren't deductible in AMT.

On March 5, 1973, Brooks announced that the Mint would be soliciting new reverse designs for the half dollar and dollar to commemorate the 1976 United States Bicentennial.

The resulting bill had no gold provisions, but authorized changes to the reverses of the quarter, half dollar and dollar for the Bicentennial.