The United States has lost more than three and a half million jobs since the recession began more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We got lost for like half an hour or so. That was fine.

我们迷路了大约半个小时。那还好。

友好的英国人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Indonesia is said to have lost almost half its mangroves forests within the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

One major lender lost more than a billion and a half dollars in the second quarter.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

But about half of those jobs have been lost in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The Dead Sea lost thirty-three percent of its surface area during the last half-century.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Africa lost almost three and a half million hectares.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Half our coral reefs are dead or dying. We've lost 90 percent of deep blue water,big game fish: the halibut,the tuna and the marlin that we all loved to eat.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04