The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The company is said to have never broken its contract with the government in its two and a half years of operation.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And he says his team has already identified two trillion dollars in reductions to help cut the deficit in half within four years.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The researchers say all ten patients remain alive two and a half years after the treatment, and the disease has disappeared in nine of them.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

After two-and-a-half years of war, he had good news to report.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

He spent two and one-half years in prison.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

There were approximately 34 people who worked directly on those medals. They got quite attached over two-and-a-half years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

"We've been warning about this for two and a half years." "There really isn't a good reason for physicians to continue to prescribe the drug.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

An officer's term usually lasts for two years, with about half rotating out each year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

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

Militants have mounted numerous suicide attacks in Pakistan during the past two-and-one-half years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Now,we're about two-and-a-half years later, and we're still working in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Half of those have died in the past two years.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26