The company is said to have never broken its contract with the government in its two and a half years of operation.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The researchers say all ten patients remain alive two and a half years after the treatment, and the disease has disappeared in nine of them.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

"Because we asked, and other parties asked, three years ago three and a half years ago for the setting up of the Iraq Inquiry."

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Four and a half years ago, the National Zoo unveiled its new addition to great fanfare.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"We've been warning about this for two and a half years." "There really isn't a good reason for physicians to continue to prescribe the drug.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

The company was started two and a half years ago by two university students who saw electronic recycling as an environmentally friendly way of making money.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

She was ordered to remain under house arrest for another one and a half years - a sentence that human rights groups and foreign governments say was aimed at preventing her from participating in next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

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

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

It offers seven and a half billion dollars over five years to improve health, education and security.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

They found that over a period of six years, planting three rows of trees reduced total dust and ammonia by more than half.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The measure calls for one and a half billion dollars a year for five years.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

After two-and-a-half years of war, he had good news to report.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

There were approximately 34 people who worked directly on those medals. They got quite attached over two-and-a-half years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Now,we're about two-and-a-half years later, and we're still working in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22