The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

About a year and a half ago, his goat Millie was giving him a hard time.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The Iraq surge involved about 20,000 U.S.combat troops over a period of a year and a half.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04