half-a-dollar

"I thought there was half-a-dollar in it," he said.

FINIS 2010

In many places, maize sells for up to half-a-dollar (0.42 euros) per kilogram as opposed to 13 cents per kilogram at state-run depots where it has not been available for months.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

But if you were Joe Six Pack, then you had to turn on the radio, switch on the television or simply spend half-a-dollar on the newspaper in the morning.

Revolution will be blogged! 2004

A short time before, a man had been killed at a gaming-table because, having lost half-a-dollar more than he possessed, he was going to “amok.”

The Malay Archipelago 2004

For each bale of cloth, half-a-dollar in coin is taken; on gums and coffee the duty is one pound in twenty-seven.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

My knowledge of the "Rhine" enabled me to escape from all save one, but he was as familiar with our vessel as I, and finally, penning me in a corner, he produced a frog as big as a lap-dog, and declared that it was his almost suicidal intention to practically give me the thing for half-a-dollar.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

If you want half-a-dollar with which to buy a spade, and go out and dig for your living, I'll give it to you cheerfully.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

I reckon every one of those beauties is worth half-a-dollar.

Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Allen Chapman

Well, with half-a-dollar in your pocket, it was not a bright prospect.

Germany and Austria at the Outbreak of War 1915

Slattery's last harangue was delivered to men only and the house was packed with Baptists and Baylorites at half-a-dollar a head.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905