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

VOA: special.2009.05.17

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

About a year and a half ago, his goat Millie was giving him a hard time.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

In the year and a half before the ban, hospitals had 399 admissions for heart attacks.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Prices roses in May at the highest rate in a year and a half.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

She started climbing a year and a half ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Rocket attacks have been rare since Israel's massive three-week assault on Gaza a year and a half ago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

The Iraq surge involved about 20,000 U.S.combat troops over a period of a year and a half.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"Everyone's unemployment rates have gone up in the past year, year and a half.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"Every day I meet people or I hear from people who talk about sending out resume after resume, and they have been on the job hunt for a year or year and a half and still cannot find anything and are desperate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

The Alaska Travel Industry Association says tourism directly pumps a billion and a half dollars a year into the state economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

That was down from last year, when more than three thousand walkers raised almost seven and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

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

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The United States has lost more than three and a half million jobs since the recession began more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year -- another victim every six seconds.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

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

A recent report predicted that the number of mobile phone accounts worldwide will reach almost four and a half billion this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

BeadforLife reported sales in its last budget year of more than three and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Diarrhea kills one and a half million children each year one in five child deaths worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.11.09