The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The World Health Organization aims to reduce by half the number of people who die from tuberculosis by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

The farmers themselves pay to keep it running. Their new irrigation method has cut water usage by half.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Malhotra says the number of customers is down by half, compared to last year, as surging gold prices and the global economic recession scare away people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that in the Philippines, if we in a year can be reaching just five thousand farmers and their fields can be increasing the yield by half a ton per hectare, we could be looking at profitabilities for those farmers in the range of half a million dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

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

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

By eighty five or ninety, half of all people are found to have some signs of the disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

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

VOA: special.2010.01.06

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17