Sentence examples for hefty half from inspiring English sources

American stocks initially bolted higher after the European Central Bank and the Bank of England cut rates by a surprisingly hefty half a percentage point.

Even in the 2000 Florida squeaker, George W. Bush did better: he topped Al Gore by nine one-thousandths of one per cent; nationally, of course, Gore's margin of nonvictory was a hefty half a per cent.

That was true as well for a hefty half chicken served with a jumble of shrimp: the delicious wine-and-hot-oil flavor made up for merely average ingredients.

This is a story with a hefty half-life.

Earlier this month, the Fed surprised financial markets with a hefty half-point cut.

And in the regular meeting of mid-September, they did cut the fed funds rate — by a hefty half-point.

The central bank raised interest rates by a hefty half-percentage point on Wednesday to 11.25 percent, and more increases look to be on the way.

THE most recent unemployment figures have hit Washington like a brick: the unemployment rate jumped to 5.5% in May, a hefty half-point hike from April.

It is just under five inches long and two inches wide -- common dimensions for a cellphone -- but it weighs in at a hefty half-pound.

She was the heftier half of the pair, the one who rode in the sidecar and was never seen popping open a beer at the end of an episode.

Even though it turns out a hefty 4,000 half-kegs a year, its signature product, Old Yankee Ale, isn't really known outside Stonington, Mystic and New London.