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 World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year -- another victim every six seconds.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

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

In women over eighty, those who smoked were five and a half times more likely to develop AMD than the women who did not smoke.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Snakes bite an estimated five and a half million people worldwide each year.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The World Health Organization estimates that cardiovascular disease killed seventeen and a half million people in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

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

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

VOA: special.2009.10.17

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

VOA: special.2010.01.06

On average, each adolescent reported using some kind of media five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Diarrhea kills one and a half million children each year one in five child deaths worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

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

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Rolling Stone Magazine gives the CD four and a half out of five stars.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

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

VOA: special.2010.04.14

"Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that in the Philippines, if we in a year can be reaching just five thousand farmers and their fields can be increasing the yield by half a ton per hectare, we could be looking at profitabilities for those farmers in the range of half a million dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28