Sentence examples for raised to half from inspiring English sources

The task force recommended that the federal minimum wage, now $5.15 an hour, be raised to half the average hourly wage in the U.S., which would bring it to $8.40.

At Dinner in the Sky in Belgium, diners are strapped into chairs, raised to half the height of Big Ben and served meals like ham salad and sautéed prawns that are cooked in a small oven in the centre of the structure.

"Getting the number of Sundays raised to half a dozen is excellent news because that's when families can come out and enjoy an affordable day at the races".

Spots with adjusted intensities lower than half the background were manually raised to half the background to avoid extreme expression ratios.

When raising to Half Mast, the flag should be briskly raised to the top, then ceremoniously lowered to the appropriate setting.

Lobbyists for hedge funds want the threshold raised to a half and foreign and public pension-plan money removed from the cap.

bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars.

Should the club survive, as many expect, next season will see sights raised to the top half of the table and beyond.

The company was raking in $400 million in revenue last year, on top of $41 million in funding raised to date (about half of which was closed in February).

According to Ikea, the move will boost the average store minimum wage to $10.76, a 17percentt increase, and bring raises to approximately half of the company's 13,650 U.S. employees.

Hundreds of projects on RocketHub have raised up to half a million dollars each.