Sentence examples for supporting half from inspiring English sources

Otherwise I live on my student loan, which is supporting half a sport and a whole degree.

Land that would only support half a dozen rabbits has rocketed in value.

The city sits in the middle of the desert, produces nothing, yet supports half a million people.

And plague is now approaching a colony of prairie dogs that supports half the wild ferret population.

Mr. Gingrich said in a debate on Monday that he would support half of the Dream Act — the part that would grant citizenship to young illegal immigrants who serve in the military, but not those who complete college.

His ambitious longterm goal is for the bank to support half a billion people in India.

AECOM supports half of the teams who won the global competition, in fact, but this is the most mature of the field in terms of formal progress.

Values from the sample were initially scaled up to the population of Western Europe, which it could be argued was the relevant one, since the area supported half the European breeding population of one species, the greenshank (Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus)).

Based on regression analysis, it is predicted that chemical remediation (sulfides ≤447 μM) sufficient to support half of the common taxa observed at the local reference station will be complete in 2004 following approximately 65 months in fallow.

The Harry Lonsdale money, which is great, supports half a studentship -- half the cost of one Ph.D. student for my lab.

Local indigenous groups and fishermen overwhelmingly opposed the project, given its threats to a watershed that supports half of the world's population of wild sockeye salmon.