The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven to two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

A recent report predicted that the number of mobile phone accounts worldwide will reach almost four and a half billion this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

By their count, the number fell from more than a half-million in nineteen eighty to about three hundred forty-three thousand in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

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

The World Health Organization aims to reduce by half the number of people who die from tuberculosis by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

The island population is estimated by the UN at over half a million, with an equal number of Cape Verdeans living abroad.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Of that number,about half are thought to have entered the country illegally,with the rest overstaying their visas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Malhotra says the number of customers is down by half, compared to last year, as surging gold prices and the global economic recession scare away people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19