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

It adds fifty percent or a half to that and that means instead of two quarter notes that we now have three and we can do the same thing to any one of these other values here and that's how we get our triple relationships.

加上了百分之五十或者说一半的原音符值,这意味着除了有两个四分音符,我们现在有三个了,我们也可以在其他这些音符值后加上附点,这就是我们如何做到三倍形式的安排的

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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