Sentence examples for slipped half from inspiring English sources

He said no, but reached under the counter and slipped half a pound of coffee into her shopping bag.

The agency has "slipped half a generation in human potential," he said, and it may need half a generation to recoup.

Volvo's shares slipped half a percent after the Swedish heavy-truck maker reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $725 million.

Climbing the dunes is hard work - one step forward, slip half a step back - but it was an effort that was rewarded with dazzling, blazing views.

A bearing removal tool makes this easier: You simply slip half the tool over each side of the bearing, then install the bolts, and tighten them with their tapered edges forcing the bearing away from the mating surfaces.

(The proportion of married couples slipped below half over the past decade, but was first reported as a precise count by the 2010 census).

Whites are no longer the majority in four states and the District of Columbia, and have slipped below half in many major metro areas, including New York, Las Vegas and Memphis.

In Central America the church's decline is stronger still: its share has slipped below half in Honduras and is not far behind in El Salvador and Nicaragua.Atheism, once virtually unheard of in the region, is now merely eccentric.

Last year, a quarterly drop in GDP was put down to the nuptials of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, when the Treasury's official line was that productivity slipped as half the country spent two days ogling the sister of the bride (or something like that).

Twitter, blocked then as it is blocked now, dropped from 12 to 7percentt, while Linkedin has slipped by half down to 6percentt.

Dec. 5: Staples pink-slips half home office as part of 140-person layoff.