Example sentences of "to half a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 2 | That sum equates to half a million pounds at today 's values — and this was six years before his two epic ring struggles with Barney Ross , so whatever motivated ‘ Baby Face ’ McLarnin to box Ross , it was n't poverty or money . |
| 3 | The charity aims to raise up to half a million pounds from the scheme . |
| 4 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 5 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
| 6 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 7 | Trading in sovereign loans grew from almost nothing to half a trillion dollars in less than five years . |