The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

However you like them, for best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

The I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

She says people would not even notice a difference in taste with three grams, or one-half teaspoon, less salt per day.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven to two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

The case later grew to include over one and a half million women who were current and former Wal-Mart workers.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

As many as one hundred crystals may join to form a snowflake larger than two and one-half centimeters.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

The report says two and one-half million people infected with HIV now are being treated with antiretroviral medicines.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

In the next four years, more than one-and-a-half-million cattle were moved north over the Chisholm trail to Kansas.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

And it can go from zero to ninety-five kilometers an hour in just two and one half seconds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

However,the cooling of about one and one-half to three degrees Celsius is only about half as strong as a real La Nina.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

For every increase of five degrees Celsius in air temperature, the patients had a seven and one-half percent higher risk of migraine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

It was responsible for more than four and one-half percent of all the years people lived with disability.

VOA: special.2009.09.08