A lost half decade is quickly turning into a whole one.

Over the last decade and a half, executive compensation in America soared.

A half century of working together, plus a decade and a half of adapting to new threats and demands, is paying off.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis have not clashed militarily for more than a decade and a half.

The current downturn, already a half decade long, will not end any time soon.

But now half a decade after ratification villagers on the Kyrgyz side aren't satisfied.

China emerged over the past decade and a half as a paradigm of economic energy, determination, and progress.

After a half decade of 5 growth, the continent s growth rate is expected to halve in 2009.

One reason is that the Federal Reserve has acted differently in the past decade and a half.

So the fall of the Berlin Wall less than half a decade later was a consequence of these thoughts.

Corporate officers respond to incentives and opportunities. Over the last decade and a half, executive compensation in America soared.

After two wars and a half dozen undeclared conflicts in the past decade, America has entered a period of unprecedented cultural hibernation.

To the scientific community, the evidence on climate change has, of course, been overwhelming for more than a decade and a half.

The difference between Ireland and Portugal in the first half of the decade was 4.8 percentage points.

But most Americans today are worse off with lower real (inflation adjusted) incomes than they were in 1997, a decade and a half ago.

What a difference a decade makes.

A Decade of Hugo Chávez

For example, consider a line segment this segment can be split in half, that half split in half, the half of the half in half, and so on.

A 'half road shutdown'

I'd like a half a kilogram of these and a half a kilogram of those.

Latin America suffered a lost decade.

The final compromise was based on a tacit understanding that EU enlargement would not be possible before the second half of the next decade.

High construction employment has been good for American workers in the past half decade a period that has not produced much good for them.

It undergoes a crisis about once a decade.

The economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart have argued that the major financial crises of the last century typically lasted a half decade or longer.

I have a half brother.

Tom has a half brother.

Tom ran a half marathon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

Let's buy half a watermelon.

SM A decade ahead of her time.

The investment deficiency in Asia relative to rates of a decade ago amounts to an annual shortfall of 400 billion a year, with the decline in investment in Japan a consequence of more than a decade of economic stagnation accounting for more than half of the total.

In this fog of praise, the IMF ignored the fact that Argentina s growth rate had stagnated and that double digit unemployment persisted for half a decade.

Greece cannot remain in a depression for a decade.

Such a world was just a dream a decade ago.

A third is less than a half.

With most Americans incomes stagnating for a decade and a half, it was clear that the US economic model was not delivering for most citizens, whatever official GDP data said.

A series of World Bank and Russian studies have estimated that Russia can gain 0.5 1.0 percentage points in economic growth for half a decade if it joins the WTO.

Only Japan s lost decade and a half and the hardships of the transition from communism count as true macroeconomic catastrophes of a magnitude that was depressingly common in earlier decades.

Frank Warren Half a million secrets

I bought half a dozen eggs.

How much for half a kilo?

We have half a dozen eggs.