The Alaska Travel Industry Association says tourism directly pumps a billion and a half dollars a year into the state economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But finer materials such as compost should only be two and a half to seven and a half centimeters high.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

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

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

One and a half million Palestinians live in the narrow strip of land where most people depend on aid.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

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

VOA: special.2010.01.01

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Passengers will pay two hundred thousand dollars to ride to outer space and back for two and a half hours.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The world's largest drug company has agreed to pay almost two and a half billion dollars for illegal marketing of medicines.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

On May third, the Cumberland River measured almost sixteen meters, more than three and a half meters above flood stage.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

He says the group used a million-and-a-half-dollar donation from the Nike Foundation to expand the program to cricket players in India.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

The union collected the notes on a board twenty-three meters wide by almost two and a half meters tall.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

But he says investment has risen from four percent of national budgets to probably five and a half percent today.

VOA: special.2009.11.17