She started climbing a year and a half ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Rocket attacks have been rare since Israel's massive three-week assault on Gaza a year and a half ago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The United States has lost more than three and a half million jobs since the recession began more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

He and his brother-in-law,E.J.Cossman, created the Uncle Milton Ant Farm more than a half century ago.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

A half-century ago,for example, producing genetic copies of animals was only a dream of scientists.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

"Half the buildings you have seen, they were not there five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

They started meeting three and a half weeks ago.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Kingsley was fascinated by how the story explores mental health care from half-a-century ago when techniques now viewed as barbaric were commonplace.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

"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

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

When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The Liberal Democratic Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election a few weeks ago, and it is expected to lose its half-century hold on Japanese politics in the August 30 general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"We have seen some diminution." But even if the U.S.economy is losing jobs at a slower pace than half a year ago, the overall unemployment picture remains bleak, according to Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

"It never will be." Hen-Tov says Iranian leaders are perplexed - even envious - that a country that was half as rich as Iran was years 30 ago, when the Islamic Revolution took place, is today twice as wealthy as Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26