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

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

The case later grew to include over one and a half million women who were current and former Wal-Mart workers.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

As many as one hundred crystals may join to form a snowflake larger than two and one-half centimeters.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

In the next four years, more than one-and-a-half-million cattle were moved north over the Chisholm trail to Kansas.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

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

For every increase of five degrees Celsius in air temperature, the patients had a seven and one-half percent higher risk of migraine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

The official returned with a treaty giving the Dominican Republic to the United States for one-and-one-half-million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

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

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Snowflakes come in different sizes. As many as one hundred crystals may join together to form a snowflake larger than two and one-half centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The F.T.C.estimates that food,drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

It describes a rectangle with a length about one and one-half times its width.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

If you plant inside, fill a seven and one-half centimeter pot with soil.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Zimbabwe,for example, had a five and one-half percent increase per year.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

This meant creating a tunnel more than one-and-one half kilometers long.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says one of its boats,the Ady Gil, a sleek high-technology speed boat, was rammed and sliced in half by a Japanese ship,the Shonan Maru.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

To represent that chain of events, a long line of oversized, brightly painted dominoes has been set up running for one-and-a-half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

She was ordered to remain under house arrest for another one and a half years - a sentence that human rights groups and foreign governments say was aimed at preventing her from participating in next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

But there should not be war." One thing nearly all South Koreans agree on is the devastating human toll that all-out war would take on the peninsula,recalling - from direct experience or their education - that one and a half million civilians died during the three-year Korean War.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27