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• The top-to-bottom makeover took more than two and a half years.
  — Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• The French Broad should be a foot and a half high, lazy and blue.
  — Susanne Paola Antonetta, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• Having to dance for two and a half hours to five hours a night (on days with two shows) is a very different life physically for me.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
• Two and a half months later, the young woman started producing enough of her own insulin to not need injections of the hormone anymore.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
• To initiate it, the trio appears at the outdoor venue Pier 17 in New York, a show that starts two and a half hours late and includes only seven songs.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
• In the eight years of war before the full-scale invasion, about four thousand Ukrainian soldiers lost their lives; in the two and a half years since, the number of war dead is thought to be closer to eighty thousand.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
• The price of the home, which has three bedrooms and two and a half baths, varies.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
• On top of that, the two and a half bathrooms didn’t work at all.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 14 May 2024
• It’s been a long road for Rachel and the Websters over the last two and a half years.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2024
• So that's a great one, and that's going to run for two and a half hours.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Atlantic Ocean has been running a fever for the past year and a half.
  — Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 2 July 2024
• His arrest took place two and a half weeks ago, and the world moves fast.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 June 2024
• Byers had served with the agency for two and a half years.
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2024
• But on Tuesday, there were four and a half pages on the Yankees and a half-page on the Mets.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
• Now the episodes are approaching two and a half, three hours.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• The June 11-12 Fed meeting is still nearly two and a half months away.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• Yeah, this conflict's been going on for a year and a half now.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Josh Allen and starters will also play about a quarter and a half.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
• But the show also took two and a half years to make, and more episodes means more money spent.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
• When it’s done, the home will comprise 4,900 square feet with five bedrooms and five and a half baths.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2023
• Over the past two and a half years, three chickens and one miniature horse were not so lucky.
  — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2024
• The interview went from six minutes to an hour and a half.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• The dip will cook for an hour and a half to two hours, but only takes 10 minutes of hands-on time.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
• The Jewish students lasted an hour and a half and left.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
• Sizes range from 2 inches on ‘Mouse Ears’ to over a foot and a half on giant hostas.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2024
• Cut to a year and a half later, and Seavers is parking cars at a restaurant.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• Here’s why: In 2008, the euro was worth almost one and a half dollars.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 2 Jan. 2024
• The device works in above- and in-ground pools up to about 30 feet long, charges in just two and a half hours, and runs for up to 90 minutes.
  — Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 May 2024
• That took about two and a half years to finish – from start to finish – ending in 1989.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 26 Sep. 2023
• The project would also widen bridges and rebuild on and off-ramps within the next two and a half years, ADOT added.
  — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024