"We have seen some diminution." But even if the U.S.economy is losing jobs at a slower pace than half a year ago, the overall unemployment picture remains bleak, according to Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

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

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

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

Each year an estimated two hundred fifty thousand to half a million children go blind from vitamin A deficiency.

VOA: special.2011.03.01

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

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

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

VOA: special.2009.05.17

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

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

VOA: special.2009.04.16

After one year, the risk of heart disease for a non-smoker is half that of a smoker.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

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

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

VOA: special.2010.07.20

In all,his plan calls for three and a half trillion dollars in federal spending for the two thousand ten budget year starting in October.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

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

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Last year,more than six hundred twenty thousand, or three and a half percent, were international students.

VOA: special.2009.02.05