Sentence examples for retrieves half from inspiring English sources

He retrieves half a dozen luxury shawls made from the fur of an endangered antelope, which are so fine they can be passed through a ring.

A search with a sensitivity of 1, for instance retrieves all relevant references, while a search with a sensitivity of 0.5 retrieves half of all relevant references.

Although throwing out in our family is a loose term since Emma's need to go through waste bins and retrieve half the contents is legendary.

After 24 h the wasps were retrieved, half of them were transferred directly to 96% ethanol and the other half were kept in glass vials with honey for four days, and then also placed in ethanol.

He was retrieved, half-drowned, and smelling oddly of insecticide.

Most foreign experts agree that retrieving even half of the lost money would be an achievement.

A soup-filled wok bubbled on the stove, and his cousin, having retrieved a half bottle of wine he had stashed away, cooked rice noodles in the broth, tossing in oysters and cabbage and a handful of tiny, curled squids.

Oil began to flow this month and the 9,000 workers of the North Oil Company received their overdue wages after American soldiers drilled a hole in the roof of a bank vault, retrieving around half a million dollars' worth of Iraqi dinars.

Already an exporter of natural gas, the U.S. will retrieve nearly half of its gas from shale formations by that time [ 2].

For example, to conduct hand-searching of journals, it would have been necessary to search almost 30 years of more than 20 journals to retrieve just half of relevant records identified through our electronic searches.

But first things first: the city still had to retrieve its half-million unearthed objects from down South.