and a half

I've been reading your blog for a year and a half from now, and it has really helped me to focus on certain things to make me happy.

For the next six and a half years, Betancourt was kept in places all over the countryside of Columbia.

By the end of last week , I had studied English here for a year and a half .

He said the government could borrow enough money to pay each man a dollar and a half a day.

With Marc's half-remembered sense of direction and a half-franc postcard for a map, we alternate leads up the face.

Three and a half successful years later, the time had surely come for Suarez to test himself in one of the Europe's major leagues.

The president has just a month and a half to make the case for keeping Democrats in charge in Washington to voters itching for change.

The number of peacetime domestic servants in Germany remained unchanged at a million and a half during the war.

In his previous job at a New York firm, he said, "I spent a year and a half doing concept designs that never got built. "

One group of people just met for an hour-and-a-half once a week in a support group.

Not the Obama administration, which more or less dropped the subject a year and a half ago.

The father of her son committed suicide in 1993 when the boy was only a year and a half old.

The project will start within the next 6 months and take a year and a half to finish.

It only took him another floor and a half to ask Miranda for her phone number.

Greg once dumped this woman and a year and a half later, he saw her on the street. She looked terrific and was with a total babe.

Mexicans hoped that NAFTA, the North American Free-Trade Agreement that came into force a decade and a half ago, would make them rich.

but you know, there is nothing normal about we've been doing for the last four and a half months.

Today, on an incredibly hot day, my flip flop broke, leaving me to walk barefoot on the hot asphalt for a mile and a half to my car. FML.

At the age of one-and-a-half, Yuhi doesn't understand that his mother is gone, explains Ami Kozuchi, his aunt.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his master's house.

He first saw the design concept of Microsoft's just-introduced mobile system, Windows Phone 7, a year and a half ago.

He notes a World Health Organization estimate that more than one and a half million people a year die from breathing smoke from solid fuels.

Then, we circled an inlet and, after a while, saw a little house. This place was in a kilometer-and-a-half from the enemy strongholds.

The fog was beginning to part, and a mile and a half away the enemy's troops could be indistinctly seen on the opposite heights.

Within three days the troops of both sides will have fallen back leaving two and a half miles of silence between them.

It takes about a week and a half to build up a proper canvas - if you try to do it in a single day, the dirt just falls off the window.

'Aidan's Hickman got infected after a month and a half, it had to be removed immediately without time to schedule anaesthesia.

I fought for two-and-a-half years to overcome my injury without knowing there'd be a day like this at the end of it ?

His mother, a convicted murderer, brought her sons into prison with her two-and-a-half years ago.

Since the rectification movement is so important, why have we failed to practise it over the past year and a half?

But on October 11th the company said that it would float its businesses outside Western Europe within the next year and a half.

A MOB attacked Alexander Aan even before an Indonesian court in June jailed him for two and a half years for "inciting religious hatred"

The restricted stock will vest over a year and a half, with the first portion available to sell in August.

During the next year and a half, Stallone wrote eight screenplays but was unable to sell any of them.

In the United States, elementary and middle schools are advised to give students two and a half hours of physical activity a week.

After about a year and a half of Bob's cow crapping in Bill's yard; being ignored all the while, a semi pulls up in front of Bill's house.

It's a shame. Will this afternoon be all right? But I can only spare you an hour and a half today, from four o'clock.

One family sank everything into a home it bought a year and a half ago, which has since lost $150, 000 in value.

"About a year and a half ago, " says Mr. Snagsby, strengthened, "he came into our place one morning after breakfast. "

But just as he was expecting her, she phoned to say that she wouldn't be in for another two and a half hours.

They're putting my teeth back where they were a year and a half ago.

From the moment that our ancestors, perhaps two and a half million years ago or so, began imitating, there was a new copying process.

It was an hour-and-a-half trip each way, and I was a heavy boy, much heavier than I am as an adult.

My home is not far from the Brooklyn Bridge, and during the year and a half I was on crutches, it became a sort of symbol to me.

Mr. Jobs, who has battled pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant a year and a half ago, has taken two previous leaves of absence.

Four centuries, two centuries, and one-and-a-half centuries: 2009 offers a fine excuse to celebrate two of the great iconoclasts of history.

The notes are designed for investors with a bullish view over the next year to year and a half on the price of pork, rice and soyabeans.

I was the only human being in an area one-and-a-half times the size of America; five-and-a-half thousand square miles.

The mammal is distinguished by an unusual breeding cycle that occurs every 18 months and has pups suckle for a year and a half.

A year and a half down the line, the consequence is a dearth of pork and higher prices.

After a week-and-a half in Croatia and Serbia the only thing I understand is how much I don't understand.

Zhang began checking real estate listings in his neighborhood a year and a half ago. He was stunned.

Her equestrian career didn't last (she says she rode for a year-and-a-half), but her cooking stuck.

It's a. . . We spent like a year and a half making it and I really believe that every second was worth it.

Previously, she headed the Ministry of Commerce's Bureau of Fair Trade for Imports and Exports for a year and a half.

Eight and a half minutes later she was in orbit, ready to complete her mission of carrying supplies to the space station.

A year and a half later, just as officers were despairing of every hearing of him again, he reappeared on parade.

A year and a half ago he thought he'd bail for cushier employment.

He has since been studying diligently for a year and a half, paying about $240 a year for premium services.

Harrison spoke for more than one and a half hours. He gave the speech outside, on the front steps of the Capitol building.

This problem has lasted for a century and a half. As long as it remained unsolved, it cast a shadow over the relations between us.

Our Forum, and the discussions we will have in the next day and a half, are part of this vital process of understanding.

A year-and-a-half later, after a short-lived spell in coalition with Fatah, Hamas violently took over the Gaza Strip.

Almost three-and-a-half hours of a woman's day is taken up with domestic work, compared to less than two hours for men.

One of the reactors was shaken by a jolt nearly two and a half times more powerful than it had been built to withstand.

'Then four years ago, after saving for a year-and-a-half, I made my first trip to the Himalayas.

"The matter has been under consultation for the past two and a half years, " he says.

I had a death threat a year and a half ago and I had a death threat just before the release of my movie.

Last night, he took an hour and a half to finish all my homework.

B: Good morning. I'd like a pot of coffee, some toast, and a half grapefruit brought up to my room, please.

I asked the student if he had done any previous preparation for the exam, he was preparing to take in a week and a half.

I'm going to leave in one and a half month. I felt myself unable to leave!

In cotton-producing or non-cotton-producing areas, most of the peasants now had three and a half pounds of cotton a year.

A neighbor told us about a trip he took with his two-and-a-half -year-old son.

I was 50 and had been divorced for a year and a half when friends encouraged me to try to meet someone new.

As things turned out, I actually stayed two and a half months and saw much more of China than I had dreamed possible.

Over the next decade and a half, most of these youth will join the workforce.

The scientists say the vaccine remained active even after being stored at room temperature for more than a year and a half.

The American people will have had another year and a half to overcome their lag in awareness of this incredible horror.

And you know one of them was a starting player for a season and a half.

Of the one-and-a-half million fungal species on Earth, only a few hundred are capable of infecting mammals.

In two and a half years, it has wiped out the main military forces of the reactionary Kuomintang government and all its crack divisions.

Plenty of times in the imagination, one can turn back to when he made his debut at 16-and-a-half.

This book has been a year and a half in the making, and it came together in large part because of you.

After a year and a half of positive economic growth, we are putting more distance between us and the depth of the financial crisis.

But a combination of factors has caused U. S. manufacturing to see a surprising recovery in the past year and a half.

Come together the way you and I have a full picture, why not continue to go on like this painting? And a half on the road to stop what can?

"The good news is the economy is still growing. There is a significant difference than where we were a year and a half ago, " said Dunigan.

An appeal jury debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand.

For a year-and-a-half, every week she stuffed the pages, along with mementos, into an envelope and mailed them off to him.

Of the one-and-a-half million fungal species on Earth, only a few hundred are capable of infecting mammals.

In two and a half years, it has wiped out the main military forces of the reactionary Kuomintang government and all its crack divisions.

Plenty of times in the imagination, one can turn back to when he made his debut at 16-and-a-half.

This book has been a year and a half in the making, and it came together in large part because of you.

After a year and a half of positive economic growth, we are putting more distance between us and the depth of the financial crisis.

"None of us knew how ill she was over the last four and a half years, " adds Estee Lauder (EL) board member Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

But there are at least three-and-a-half years to go - add another four if, as seems currently likely, Obama wins a second term.

But a combination of factors has caused U. S. manufacturing to see a surprising recovery in the past year and a half.

Come together the way you and I have a full picture, why not continue to go on like this painting? And a half on the road to stop what can?

"The good news is the economy is still growing. There is a significant difference than where we were a year and a half ago, " said Dunigan.

"None of us knew how ill she was over the last four and a half years, " adds Estee Lauder (EL) board member Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

But there are at least three-and-a-half years to go - add another four if, as seems currently likely, Obama wins a second term.

Putin returned to the surface after four and a half hours looking a little groggy, according to witnesses at the lakeside.

But a combination of factors has caused U. S. manufacturing to see a surprising recovery in the past year and a half.

Come together the way you and I have a full picture, why not continue to go on like this painting? And a half on the road to stop what can?

"The good news is the economy is still growing. There is a significant difference than where we were a year and a half ago, " said Dunigan.

An appeal jury debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand.

For a year-and-a-half, every week she stuffed the pages, along with mementos, into an envelope and mailed them off to him.

Thrown into the deep waters of sailing in his youth, he left with his parents to sail the Mediterranean for a year and a half.

It was the first time in a year and a half that I'd seen my lovely daughter.

An appeal jury debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand.

For a year-and-a-half, every week she stuffed the pages, along with mementos, into an envelope and mailed them off to him.

Thrown into the deep waters of sailing in his youth, he left with his parents to sail the Mediterranean for a year and a half.

It was the first time in a year and a half that I'd seen my lovely daughter.

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

With an estimated climbing time of just under five and a half hours, it is also one of the shortest.

After gorging themselves silly on cheap credit, about a year and a half ago US consumers began a much needed detox.

(Foreigners could not operate the latter. ) Google then began a year-and-a-half-long negotiation to restore the license.

And in his State of the Union address that December he said that two and a half million Americans were unemployed.

I've been living out of a suitcase for a year and a half it seems like.

And in his State of the Union address that December he said that two and a half million Americans were unemployed.

I've been living out of a suitcase for a year and a half it seems like.

Previously, Jack spent a year and a half with Lotus Consulting on numerous on-site customer engagements.

American children also have one of the shortest school days, six-and-a-half hours, adding up to 32 hours a week.

Generally speaking, the "inverted Huang Mei" of the time not long , short, about a week, long the 10 -day and a half months.

Why would someone even consider trying to open a golf club nearly one-and-a-half times the size of Manhattan?

A shirt that weighed 200 grams at the beginning of a match can weigh up to two-and-a-half times as much just 45 minutes later.

It was close to midnight, and he and a half-dozen peers at the checkpoint stood around our car on the snowy mountain road.

he began to speak only a year and a half ago.

Millie told me that she has been a member of the opera club for three years and a half.

he began to speak only a year and a half ago.

Millie told me that she has been a member of the opera club for three years and a half.

You know I wasn't at the meeting. I was meeting with Mr. Wei about this account. I've been on this for a month and a half.

By the next year , she was already doing the double axel (two and a half turns ) in competitions .

All right. Please be seated over here. . . Yes, sir. You're a perfect eight and a half. Just a moment, please.

We knew when he got the injury playing for England it would take at least three weeks, and it was about two-and-a-half weeks ago he got it.

The mother takes six pence out of her bag and gives to the conductor . The conductor gives her one and a half ticket.

I have been allowed a minute and a half, or 90 seconds, my choice, to thank everyone that made it possible for me to receive this honor.

Furthermore, Hiddink insists that he will continue to boss Russia for the next year and a half at least.

For the next two and a half hours I climbed those old walls and had the time of my life.

For the next two and a half hours I climbed those old walls and had the time of my life.

He crossed this bridge and made at least a couple of 90 degree turns before crashing just a mile and a half from school.

Arkansas kicked off to Texas, forced a fumble on the first possession, and scored less than a minute and a half into the game.

It wasn't until two and a half years later that we felt ready to take the next step of raising capital.

First you must accept he is not to blame in any way, and that around one in five four-and-a-half year-olds bed-wet once a week or more.

Luckily for Mr Ryan and his party, the election that matters is still a year-and-a-half away. Time enough to go back to the drawing board.

She was a nimble worker. Generally in an hour and a half the twenty -one menu cards were written and ready.

For a century and a half, China smarted over its domination by the West, leaving it with a deep sense of humiliation.

The risk would rise further over the next year and a half if Iran continued to push ahead with its military program.

A woman apparently of her time, Blair was at least a generation and a half ahead of it.

A woman apparently of her time, Blair was at least a generation and a half ahead of it.

"We've had the best weekend in literally a year-and-a-half to two years, " he added.

It's the punch line of a joke I've been using since we started two and a half hours earlier: I still don't know the name of your movie.

South Korean authorities intervened to prop up the won yesterday after the currency dropped to a two-and-a-half year low against the dollar.

One staffer recently spent a year and a half in East Timorhelping to set up a fund there.

Would you be prouder of me, if I'd contributed two and a half million dollars to buy Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer?

Well, I just read in the news that fewer and fewer businesses ask their employees to work five and a half days a week.

Its origins go back well over a century and a half, and was an important trade link between Pickering and Whitby.

The antagonism generated at their first meeting a year and a half earlier would remain a permanent part of their relationship.

At twenty-three, I finally escaped and found myself sailing for a year and a half down the inter-coastal waterway to the Bahamas.

At twenty-three, I finally escaped and found myself sailing for a year and a half down the inter-coastal waterway to the Bahamas.

For the next three and a half days straight (without sleeping), Stallone and his wife, Sasha, wrote the first draft of Rocky.

And it takes a year and a half for the deal to close cause it has to go through and I trust the business in a US center era.

The Peloponnesian War was the great conflict in which the Greek city state system tore itself apart two and a half millennia ago.

And just a week and a half after the fatal incident, as residents demand safer streets, Chicago faces a new battle -- this time over guns.

Their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Xixi was somewhere inside. Her father drew the back of his hand across his eyes.

"You see, " he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty leagues. "

In a year and a half, the sunglasses brand saw its turnover increase three fold, proving a model like Beckham is worth the price.

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

And although I was exercising for only a minute and a half, it took more than two minutes for my heart rate to settle back to normal.

And although I was exercising for only a minute and a half, it took more than two minutes for my heart rate to settle back to normal.

And I will now do for the rest of my life the One Laptop Per Child, which I've sort of been doing for a year and a half, anyway.

The two-and-a-half months spanning these dates that Mars is retrograde would not be the time for you to launch new ventures.

Most afternoons, Joao straps on his prostheses and circles the physical-therapy room for an hour and a half, clinging to a walker.

The banking programme seems to be yet another child of the failed interventions of the past one and a half years: optimistic and indecisive.

The man's tie was stained, his face was smeared with red lipstick, and a half empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket.

In high school, for a year-and-a-half, it was math.

But no rational basis for discrimination was presented at the two-and-a-half-week trial in January, he said.

Earlier it was referred to this direct life device. You know, I've been using it for two and a half months.

We have everything in common and dated happily for a year and a half.

We have everything in common and dated happily for a year and a half.

11So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

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

considered the fact that 92% of the American population is stuck in traffic for an hour and a half a day.

If you scaled a five-year-old up to be six-and-a-half feet tall, the giant child would lope along just like a similarly sized adult.

We spend one-and-a-half times more per person on health care than any other country, but we aren't any healthier for it.

As an economist I have followed this issue closely over the past two and a half years, and yet I still found this book illuminating.

By the end of last week, we had drilled this well for a year and a half.

"A year and a half is a lifetime in politics, but I think this really does boost his foreign policy credentials, " Arterton said.

For a full two years this went on daily, whit the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master's house.

Air France and British Airways ran a regular transatlantic service to New York with an average flight time of just three and a half hours.

He is nothing if not stubborn; nobody survives five-and-a-half years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam without a steely will.

In just three decades 'childhood' has been cut back by a year and a half as youngsters develop earlier.

Something the mass of our sun, for instance, could trap light if it shrank into a ball just one and a half miles across.

I've been an adult for 5 years and out of college for about a year and a half. My girlfriend and I have been together since we were both 18.

A year and a half of community work and long working experience, and cultivate the certain organization ability and management ability.

Raul made about $10, 000 total by donating a couple of times a week for a year and a half, at $70 a sample.

Isabel Chivers and Reggie were engaged for two years: Grace and Thorley for nearly a year and a half.

I am also reminded of a time, about a year and a half ago when we took our family to Israel, the week after Christmas.

We kind of have this rule of, ideally, we announce a game a year to a year and a half before the game comes out.

They've tried working out a peace agreement before, but those talks have been stalled for about a year and a half.

'I wouldn't consider it a relationship, it lasted about two and a half months, and when it ended he gave me a piano.

Development of the character then continued for upwards of a year-and-a-half.

Thus, Huo star and a half star family and embarked on a reconstruction of the wind on family trips.

Once on the skyway, there was no shoulder for three and a half miles, as the elevated roadway spanned two rivers.

Since the financial crisis over a year and a half ago, many more people than usual have started paying attention to the economy.

In return, I would like a full refund of the tuition I've paid over the last two and a half years.

For a full two years, this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots of water to his house.

We have read that your daughter is working with you? Yes, she worked in my workshop for two and a half years, but she decided to leave.

Chief Editor Colin Myler said: "As a final tribute to seven-and-a-half million readers, this is for you - and for the staff. "

An hour and a half would pass by, and I'd realize that I wasn't going to get as much done as I had planned.

Then it took me until she was about a year-and-a-half before I lost the next 10 kilos.

Scientists discovered the snails a year and a half later, after they had already pushed some native species close to extinction.

Monday's trading was the most volatile in a year and a half.

Two and a half millennia of debate have, however, failed to produce a satisfactory answer.

About a year and a half ago, Jim developed a lump on his forehead and underwent surgery to have it removed.

So long and numerous were these walls that Po estimated they would go around the earth one and a half times if put end to end.

But after a while an hour and a half was not enough, and I began to think up excuses to miss dinner.

So after a year and a half on the job, have I found that being an agony aunt lives up to my dream?

We gave you a post-office box two and a half months ago and wrote to you that day to tell you your box number .

As we reached a clearing in the forest, we were able to see forward up to a kilometer-and-a-half.

Over the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water and sank.

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

After one and a half hours' ride, we got to the Red Cross Hospital, where the AIDS children are staying.

As I've said before when you've been out injured for a year and a half it's not easy.

If they are already failing by the age of four and a half or five, it's going to be quite difficult to get them back into the system again.

"I don't see a change to where we're going to have three parties, or two and a half parties or one party, " he said.

In total, we plan to shutdown at least 800 data centers, some 40% of our inventory over the next four and a half years.

With respect to the summit, obviously we are going to be very busy over the next day and a half.

About a year-and-a-half ago, I participated in a seminar where this figure was launched.

He had studied Japanese for a year and a half before he took up English.

The shuttle will remain for a week and a half to complete work on a Japanese space laboratory.

Even now, two and a half years since the war, Baghdad has electricity for only a few hours a day.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said Iraqi forces will be able to take control of security around the country within a year-and-a-half.

The project had been expected to be completed in two years and a half.

Tracy and Steven had been up for two and a half hours, preparing our breakfasts and tidying the train.

He said in some polling stations balloting had continued up to three-and-a-half-hours past the official 10 p. m. deadline.

I only wrote for a year and a half but the process was part of my daily routine.

Thierry Breton, who only took over as French finance minister a year and a half ago, could argue his best has yet to come.

George Washington High School, about a mile and a half from our apartment, was one of the city's largest and best public schools.

After three and a half years, she said yes, and within weeks she was transformed.

That's like an extra day and a half each time for you to do something that you will really enjoy or something that's really important.

It would serve me well over the next two and a half years, as I worked for the President, who remained for me an object of awe and mystery.

A year and a half ago my godmother, a wealthy old lady, died in Moscow, and to my surprise left me three thousand in her will.

The meaning of the walk was a gift for giving me courage and I had that walk the whole time I worked here, for five and a half years.

Wary of "mission creep" , it has refused to oversee the restoration of buildings bombed by the Israelis a year-and-a-half ago.

Now a year and a half has passed before I know it. I suddenly seem to forget for what a long time I've no longer been that sad.

I picked some kind of online abacus picture, drawing into a tattoo design style, the whole works with a three and a half hours.

Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

So Paul stayed a year and a half in that place, teaching the word of God among them.