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

Leaders of the world's biggest economies agreed Sunday to cut their deficits by half or more by twenty thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

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

VOA: special.2009.11.11

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

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

VOA: special.2011.03.22

States are competing to share in almost three and a half billion dollars as part of a school reform competition.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The plan is to use more than half the savings to provide more federal Pell Grants to needy students.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Each year an estimated two hundred fifty thousand to half a million children go blind from vitamin A deficiency.

VOA: special.2011.03.01

Growth in the United States is expected to reach about two and a half percent in two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2010.01.01