American children now spend an average of seven and a half hours a day watching television or playing with electronic devices.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

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

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Ms.Gardiner said the delay between the arrival of the smell at each nostril could be as little as a half second or less.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Arches are formations that look like half a circle above an opening or hole in a rock.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Last year,more than six hundred twenty thousand, or three and a half percent, were international students.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Cleaning up and repairing that city may cost a billion and a half dollars or more.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The number of infected men, women and children is estimated at more than five and a half million -- or eleven percent of the population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Half received the vaccine. The other half received a placebo, or harmless substance.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

This is a very very different product. This is in the French European tradition, is its very very small just about the size of a half dollar or so.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

After a half-century,the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has pretty much come up empty.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16