However you like them, for best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

It's kind of like the average price of a share adjusted for splits because you don't want the--obviously when they do a two-for-one split, the price falls in half and that's meaningless, so you want to correct for splits.

有点像经过分割调整的股票平均价格,因为你不想,当一股分割成两股,价格下跌一半,这是没意义的,所以要修正分割

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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

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.03.24

He spent two and one-half years in prison.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Militants have mounted numerous suicide attacks in Pakistan during the past two-and-one-half years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05