Sentence examples for something like a half from inspiring English sources

The captain was being paid in heroin, something like a half a kilo a person.

During the past thirty years, the U.S. Mint has produced something like a half trillion coins, most of them cents, yet the Mint estimates that only about three hundred billion coins are currently in circulation.

Only about ten per cent of the population of the Atlanta metropolitan area lives inside the city itself, and the blame for the snow debacle lays at the feet of something like a half dozen mayors, along with the state Department of Transportation and Governor Nathan Deal.

Possibly something like a half a cracker and a quarter cup of water a day.

What makes this challenging is that although something like a half-point shift is hard to detect in the polls, it is also potentially meaningful given how late it is in the race and how close the contest is.

They started blistering hot, were even on top of the Western Conference for a spell, LaMarcus Alrdridge looked like a MVP candidate, and Damian Lillard made something like a half-dozen game winning shots.

It's also true that ESPN is now up to something like a half-dozen different channels, and that every time a cable network grabs a major league sport, it raises its rates.

That's around a trillion square feet — 50,000 square miles — and, since an average gardener can produce something like a half-pound of food per square foot (you garden 100 square feet, you produce 50 pounds of food), without getting too geeky you can imagine that Doiron's estimates are rational.

Performances of Mozart's best-known piano concertos have been plentiful for something like a half-century, so the appearance of a disk pairing No. 25, in C (K. 503), and No. 9, in E flat (K. 271), even with the distinguished Richard Goode as soloist, shouldn't elicit much interest.

For something like a half-million people over the last five years, the law appears to have done just that -- although the evidence, as usual, isn't quite definitive.

Like if you're walking down the sidewalk and there's nothing interesting to see or be experienced anywhere near you, something like a half-used syringe (pictured above) placed gingerly on the ledge of the Crab Shack is really gonna catch your eye.