Sentence examples for raises half from inspiring English sources

It also imports half the planet's tropical logs and raises half its pigs.The country's energy use is similarly gargantuan.

By Berton Roueché The New Yorker, September 22 , 1945P. 58 Reporter at Large about a visit to the largest duck farm in the world, located on L.I., owned and run by Hollis V. Warner, who raises half a million ducks a year.

The man raised half an arm, laughing.

Coke's partnership with the W.W.F. has thus far raised half that amount.

Thomas R. Suozzi, his probable Democratic opponent, has raised half that.

For "Bloody Bloody," the Public was supposed to raise half of the show's $4.5 million capitalization.

I remember when it was difficult to raise half a million dollars.

Then they said you had to raise half a million dollars in the last ninety days...

Mr. Simon's campaign hopes he can raise half that amount to spend on television advertising.

It has raised half that amount, but more is needed, Ms. Morgenthau said.

She raised half a million in soft money on Martha's Vineyard just yesterday.