Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

One and a half million Palestinians live in the narrow strip of land where most people depend on aid.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Instead,northern pines and hardwood trees will rise on the higher half of the land, which is called Upland.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will be shown in normal theaters as well as on the huge screens of IMAX theaters.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

He found that more than half had skin cancer on the left side of their face or body.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

She was only half-listening as she prepared a list of things to do the next day,on Halloween.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

"And half of the people on planet Earth every day use wood or biomass for cooking.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

And more than half of all the people in the United States watched the Beatles appear on a popular television program during their visit.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

On average, each adolescent reported using some kind of media five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Women are on their way to holding more than half of all American jobs.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

President Obama says he plans to slash it in half by 2014 through a combination of tax increases on wealthy Americans, and cuts in domestic programs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

He and other researchers found that more than half of some 14,000 patients in the study on that one day, developed infections in intensive care units.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

But nearly one-half of its people live on less than $1 per day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The Democrats met just three blocks from the White House, but with half a meter of snow on the ground from a winter storm, the trip became dangerous.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

"Businessmen on the Egyptian side who are able to have an exclusive market of a million and a half people to which they can market products for a much higher price."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

A military official tells VOA the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, traveled to Germany Friday for an unannounced half-day meeting on a U.S.Air Base with the Afghanistan commander, General Stanley McChrystal.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

He gained several more hundredths of a second in the third run Saturday, so with a total lead of almost half a second, Holcomb just needed to steer a solid run on his fourth and final trip down the icy course.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28