The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Lincoln then defended his statement that the United States could not continue half slave and half free.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

In women over eighty, those who smoked were five and a half times more likely to develop AMD than the women who did not smoke.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Malaria,diarrhea,and typhoid- water-related diseases that are not fatal in First World countries- cause half of the child deaths in Yemen.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

At four and a half months, Finn is not talking, but he definitely responds to what his mother says.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

They will join an estimated half million people who fled their homes in the past year and still have not returned.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

More than half of those not in school are girls, and more than two-thirds of them are in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

In the first match, England's Frank Lampard would have tied the score at 2-all before half-time, but officials did not see his shot bounceacross the goal line and rebound out after hitting under the crossbar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29