Today, the Labor Department said it hit the half-million mark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jobless Claims Raise Questions About Recovery] Reference

Last year, stores added about a half-million seasonal workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retailers Cautious As They Hire Holiday Temps] Reference

A good example is a huge study of more than a half-million members of AARP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Heavy Isn't Healthy] Reference

A half-million Asian-Americans in Houston are growing more politically active.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Voters: Beyond Bubbas And Yellow Dogs] Reference

Initial claims have fallen from a recent spike above a half-million last month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jobless Claims Rise For The First Time In 5 Weeks] Reference

In more than 30 cities, a half-million high-school students took to the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grrrl Power Rocks Paris] Reference

More than a half-million people will visit Documenta 11 before it closes Sept. 15.    From Wordnik.com.  [A County Fair For Intellectuals] Reference

He said this was costing BP more than a half-million dollars a day in leasing fees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Rig Mechanic: Managers Argued Before Blast] Reference

The agency is on the prowl for another half-million square feet in Northern Virginia.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIA under fire on search for new office space] Reference

Just 30 seconds of air time during the NBA finals costs an estimated half-million dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Bill Has Become Microsoft's Mr. Rogers] Reference

On August 14th, another half-million people were evacuated from the Sindhi city of Jacobabad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Cole: The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened] Reference

If you had been poor and were suddenly left a half-million dollars, what would you do with it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference

The standing army alone is said to number a half-million, even more than Burma's 400,000 monks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes, Big Brother Is Watching] Reference

Abbott Laboratories UNEQUAL BURDENMore than a half-million Americans have been stricken by AIDS.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of Aids?] Reference

It claims a half-million lives every year, and high cholesterol is a well-established risk factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart Attackers] Reference

A half-million people are displaced, and hundreds of families have lost their homes to the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeling the Heat From Witch Creek] Reference

One study found that a half-million ambulances were diverted in 2003 — an average of one per minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Stop the Bleeding] Reference

According to the bill, motor vehicles shed about a half-million pounds of lead a year in California alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth Day: Get the lead out to save the planet] Reference

A considerable swath of Texas land, perhaps as much as a half-million acres, will be taken by eminent domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highway To Hell?] Reference

German border officials, braced for a half-million Poles on the first day of free travel, counted only 90,000.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Germany For The Germans'] Reference

Estimates of almost a half-million international visitors to South Africa have already been substantially cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deford On South Africa: The Big Stage Is Pricey] Reference

Massive drilling rigs like the one BP was using in the Gulf rent for as much as a half-million dollars per day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Industry Rethinks Cost, Risk Of Drilling In U.S.] Reference

The following day, the government evacuated another half-million people as the waters headed toward southern Punjab.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Cole: The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened] Reference

Skeptics wonder if the projections of a half-million annual museum visitors by the year 2000 aren't a little generous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Basque-Ing In Glory] Reference

I had caught her to myself from the ocean only to suffer her to drown herself among the half-million inhabitants of Bombay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

In fact, Mitsubishi believes 3D will help revive sales in the category, helping it sell about a half-million units this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Mitsubishi rear-projection TVs have 3D, but require an adapter] Reference

(He says his salary package, estimated to be in the half-million range, puts him among only the top 30 or so college coaches.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thinking Man's Coach] Reference

In religiously blase France, more than a half-million copies have been purchased-from supermarkets as well as from bookstores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Answers] Reference

This didn't make sense to me, given that North Africa, with more than a half-million Jews, was such a critical front of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden History of the Arabs] Reference

Gates was suddenly America's youngest billionaire; Nishi still owed Microsoft a half-million dollars, primarily in personal debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Japanese Steve Jobs] Reference

Tanzania still hosts more than a half-million refugees, more than any other African country, mainly from Burundi and the Democratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

But then the owner of the land used by the stable reclaimed his sandy patch and sold it for nearly a half-million dollars, say neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bingo! Gaza Loses Again] Reference

All militaries reflect the views and culture of the society that produces them and the half-million strong Pakistani army is no exception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr Cameron doesn't understand Pakistan. Sadly, he is not alone] Reference

There are two indie documentaries about nerdcore in production, and their online trailers have each netted more than a half-million views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geeksta Rap Rising] Reference

Last year Talana donated the half-million dollars in rent it receives from a nearby NATO base to build its own blood lab for DNA analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gene Rush] Reference

That's well down from its peak of a half-million at the beginning of this decade, but still not bad for an industry that's been given up for dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Detroit Gearing Up?] Reference