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 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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.09.16

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

had to honor contracts. But Thursday,the House of Representatives voted to place a ninety percent tax on those bonuses at A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

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

VOA: special.2010.01.01

About twenty-seven percent said they plan to go to graduate school, compared to about twenty-four percent a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

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

VOA: special.2010.04.21

A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

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

Its current owner eBay agreed to sell a sixty-five percent share to a group of investors for two billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

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