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

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

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