The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Growth in the United States is expected to reach about two and a half percent in two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

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

The United States Census Bureau says two percent are American Indian and about half are Hispanic or Latino.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

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

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Most predict U.S.growth to slow to between two and half and three percent in 2010 as government stimulus efforts begin to fade.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

In trading,Japanese stocks were up nearly two percent, while markets in Hong Kong, South Korea,and Australia were up about half a percent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Despite what he calls overblown fears of a double-dip recession, Cardillo predicts the U.S.economy will grow between two and a half to three percent for the second half of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20