However,the cooling of about one and one-half to three degrees Celsius is only about half as strong as a real La Nina.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

If finer materials are used, such as cut grass, the depth should be two and a half to seven and a half centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Despite what he calls overblown fears of a double-dip recession, Cardillo predicts the U.S.economy will grow between two and a half to three percent for the second half of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"Brazil,Cameroon,and Indonesia have all reduced illegal logging significantly - one of our indicators suggest that the illegal logging in each of those countries may have been reduced by anywhere from half to three-quarters."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

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 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

The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The money is to be used to expand small irrigation projects to the other half of India's twenty-eight states.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

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

VOA: special.2010.09.16

The study says mangrove trees provide more than one and a half billion dollars worth of services to ecological systems worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

In many countries, women are half as likely as men to use fertilizers to increase the amount of crops.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

Most of the forty-five business economists questioned said they expect the recession to end in the second half of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

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