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 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

The union collected the notes on a board twenty-three meters wide by almost two and a half meters tall.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

The study found that worldwide, more than two and a half million people age ten to twenty-four died in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

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

VOA: special.2011.01.11

The report says two and one-half million people infected with HIV now are being treated with antiretroviral medicines.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The Census Bureau says that in two thousand seven, thirty-six and a half million people in the United States claimed Irish ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

More than half are girls, and more than two-thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and West Asia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

And it can go from zero to ninety-five kilometers an hour in just two and one half seconds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

He says that teenagers should set the volume control on their music players to somewhere between one-half and two-thirds the highest level,never louder.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

About fifteen centimeters of wet snow has as much water as two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

About seventy-six centimeters of dry snow equals the water in two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

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

By their count, the number fell from more than a half-million in nineteen eighty to about three hundred forty-three thousand in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The Pew Research Center says there are two and one-half million Muslims in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

For best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

VOA: special.2009.02.17

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

Two-and-one-half minutes after the Apollo Eleven launch, the first-stage rocket separated from the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

In two thousand four, he disappeared from public for a year-and-a-half.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

After two-and-a-half years of war, he had good news to report.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Seeds should be planted two and one-half centimeters deep.

VOA: special.2009.03.24