Over the past year and a half, China s reserves skyrocketed to 1.8 trillion, far and away the world s largest.

School begins at half past eight.

School begins at half past eight.

Right now, it is a half past ten.

We have welcomed more than 70 volunteer translators from at least 21 countries to the Global Voices community in the past year and a half.

Of these, half die within a year.

The past half a century of work in the service of justice

Here is one measure of success over the past year and a half, the proportion of people who smile at you in Port Phillip has risen, from 8 to 10 .

The US cannot continue with the failed policies of the past half century.

Nevertheless, policy over the past two and a half years has been good.

So for the past year and a half, my team at Push Pop Press and Charlie Melcher and Melcher Media have been working on creating the first feature length interactive book.

Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.

The flood disaster is the worst in the country in the past half century.

Those discussions have intensified over the past year.

The IMF s resurgence over the past year is breathtaking.

This is Hussein's second arrest in the past year.

In the past year, we have faced tremendous challenges.

Most countries increased funding levels over the past year.

In the past year, key standards have been set.

elmundoes they've been chanting this for a year and a half...

As a result of all the carbon dioxide, methane, soot, and other substances that we human beings pump into the atmosphere every year, global average temperatures have been rising over the past half century.

Well over half (92) of the 160 known claims were filed within the past three years.

Over the past decade and half, some developing countries have emerged as significant sources of FDI.

BRASILIA Large emerging economies were hit hard in the past year particularly in the first half by the crisis in developed countries, with Europe in recession and the United States staging only a meager recovery.

This past year has seen one missed opportunity after another.

Encouraging overall progress had been made over the past year.

So half a year ago, I decided to go to Pakistan myself.

She has been in exile for the last year and a half.

She spent half of each year in India, where she attended school.

The English obtained for only half a year the right to trade.

A friend of mine once said, You know, a three year old is not half a six year old.

Most analysts forecast that GDP will contract in the first half of 2008 and recover in the second half of the year.

Over the past year, Darfur has spun out of government control.

Navalny has continued to publish similar investigations for the past year.

In the past year, the Committee had enhanced its working methods.

In operative paragraph 2 delete the phrase in the past year

And in the first year, I had to fire half of the men.

Welfare benefits account for more than half of Germany s federal spending this year.

This year, more than half of China s provinces had serious ATS related problems.

Half of the increase, or 25 billion per year, would go to Africa.

Following the earthquake, aftershocks continued several times a month for half a year.

You see, if you're only making one film a year, or one film every year and a half, it's hard.

It initially consisted of 12 independent human rights experts, with half elected for a two year term and half elected for four years.

Yet many people look at America's economy, even over these past three and half years, with some envy.

Unfortunately, about half of the IMF s past managing directors have been either weak or overly political or both.