The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Half of the returns are within a spread of a half-percent.

半数基金收益都集中于0.5%大小的区间

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Just as I foreshadowed, if you look at the difference between the first and third quartile in the bond market -these are active returns over a ten-year period again ending June 30,2005 -and the fixed income market, the difference between first and third quartile is a half a percent per annum.

如我之前所示,如果观察,债券市场中的第一和第三个四分位数,四分位数即统计学中,把所有数值由小到大排列并分成四等份三个分割点位置分别就是三个四分位数 考虑十年期的主动型的收益,截止于2005年6月30日,在债券这个固定收益市场,第一和第三个四分位数,每年只差0.5%

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So were twelve and a half percent of Asians and almost nine and a half percent of non-Hispanic whites.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

It adds fifty percent or a half to that and that means instead of two quarter notes that we now have three and we can do the same thing to any one of these other values here and that's how we get our triple relationships.

加上了百分之五十或者说一半的原音符值,这意味着除了有两个四分音符,我们现在有三个了,我们也可以在其他这些音符值后加上附点,这就是我们如何做到三倍形式的安排的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Growth in the United States is expected to reach about two and a half percent in two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The share of foreign new students in graduate schools fell from eighteen percent to sixteen and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

That was one and a half percent of the world economy, and just losses from early death and disability.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

The group's most recent complete study shows enrollment in computer sciences increased five and a half percent in two thousand nine.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

But the latest report says urinary tract infections after surgery increased more than three and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

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

It says urinary tract infections increased more than three and a half percent after a surgical operation.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Last year,more than six hundred twenty thousand, or three and a half percent, were international students.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

And if the underemployed are added, the rate is seventeen and a half percent.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The jobless rate in June was nine and a half percent.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Here in South Korea, the KOSPI index tumbled more than four and a half percent Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

U.S.unemployment jumped a half percent in May, to 9.4 percent prompting this comment by Austan Goolsbee, a member of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors: "The economy clearly has gotten substantially worse from the initial predictions that were being made, not just by the White House, but by all of the private sector,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

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 also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

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

The number of infected men, women and children is estimated at more than five and a half million -- or eleven percent of the population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Zimbabwe,for example, had a five and one-half percent increase per year.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

In trading,Japanese stocks were up nearly two percent, while markets in Hong Kong, South Korea,and Australia were up about half a percent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The study found that half the women who died were obese and that 56 percent had a chronic illness, such as high blood pressure, heart disease or asthma.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Despite what he calls overblown fears of a double-dip recession, Cardillo predicts the U.S.economy will grow between two and a half to three percent for the second half of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20