The word “haul” is correct and can be used in written English.
It can typically be used to describe the act of carrying a heavy or large amount of something. For example, “We had to haul several boxes of books up the stairs.”.
I'm here for the long haul, I'm not planning to come down from the balcony.
Figures released today by the Electoral Commission show that the party has received only two donations above £5,000 since the election was called on April 5. Its haul of £25,000 is little more than the £20,000 the Respect coalition received, but the coalition is standing only 25 parliamentary candidates compared to the Liberal Democrats' 645.
So would Citigroup, which made $7.5bn in 2012 – a third of JP Morgan's haul – and only paid back its 2008 bailout this year; Citi is still such a work in progress that the Federal Reserve still won't allow the bank to give its investors dividends.
Congratulations on your recent haul of gold medals!
The left-armer Keith Barker completed a five-wicket haul in the first innings and then passed the baton to the international trio Chris Woakes, Rankin and Jeetan Patel, their leading wicket-taker who wrapped things up with wickets in consecutive overs, in the second.
From a London Olympics studded with failure (their lightest medal haul in 20 years) to last summer's Lions tour, it has been a lean old time, and as far as the cricket was concerned, no one was expecting matters to improve for quite a while.
The fact is that, post-9/11, many long-haul tourists began to worry about travelling to favoured destinations such as Indonesia.
While bmi haemorrhaged money on the routes, Virgin expects most of the domestic passengers to feed into its global long-haul network.
I was first alerted to the sartorial possibilities of a long-haul shopping trip when a friend, who's slightly taller than average, came back from Hong Kong with armfuls of clothes for me, and little other than handbags for herself.
Lufthansa has struggled recently against stiff competition from budget airlines such as Ryanair and easyJet on its European routes, and rivals such as Emirates and Turkish on long-haul flights.
Spain is the top short-haul destination, with Florida the most popular far-flung route.
