"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

American schools provided aid to almost half of foreign graduate students during the last academic year, but only ten percent of undergraduates.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Last year,the United States spent two and a half trillion dollars on health care.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

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

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire says angel investing fell more than six percent nationwide in the first half of last year.

VOA: special.2011.01.14

A market research company reported an early estimate of fifteen and a half billion dollars in sales of all games content in the United States last year.

VOA: special.2011.02.23

Harvard research shows that more than half of the 450,000 people who died from breast cancer last year lived in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

In the last three decades the lakes have shrunk to less than half of their original size.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The Lancet medical journal reported last month alcohol-related diseases caused around half of all deaths of Russians between the ages of 15 and 54.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

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