The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

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 study says mangrove trees provide more than one and a half billion dollars worth of services to ecological systems worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

That was one and a half percent of the world economy, and just losses from early death and disability.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

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

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

For example, one afternoon a group of writers and critics gathered to discuss book sales in the Arab world.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

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

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Estimates differ, but as much as one and a half trillion dollars may be managed under Islamic rules.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Banks hold one and a half of the three and a half trillion dollars in debt that supports the commercial real estate market.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Professor Murray says the average farm in Haiti measures about one or one and a half hectares.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

He says parents should limit snacks to one a day for children age six and older.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Diarrhea kills one and a half million children each year one in five child deaths worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.11.09