So far it has proven effective at preventing the disease in half of those vaccinated which is more than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

Yet nearly half of those whose most recent incident happened in school did not report it to an employee health office.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

And it can go from zero to ninety-five kilometers an hour in just two and one half seconds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

About six billion of it is in Islamic bonds, including a three and a half billion dollar bond set for repayment on Monday.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

They placed dirt and rocks in a pan and then filled it about half way with water.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

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

It would also "release federally-owned chimpanzees, about half of the thousand chimpanzees that are languishing in American laboratories today, to sanctuaries."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

It was a similar story in India. Bombay's Sensex index fell to its lowest level in two and a half months.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

With BP's value almost cut in half, it is not just the people at the top who will be hit.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

And half way through, who am I going to be doing it with in six months when this contract is up."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

It says suicide deaths account for more than half of all violent deaths in the world more than all deaths from wars and homicides combined.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

He says it is increasingly important to do this analysis in connection with urbanization because more than half of the world population lives in urban areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Okinawa is Japan's smallest prefecture in terms of land, but it is home to about half the approximately 47,000 U.S.military personnel on bases and ships in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11