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What I have is a one-and-a-half-year-old grandson who had a cold who likes to kiss his pop. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
She’s just learning how to talk, she’s one and a half years old. – David Lehman	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I would say the pleasantries for taking the time to meet with us have gone out the window and we go right to the meat of the question. After one and a half years, we get right to it. We want an explanation why. – Peter Vlitas	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We only have one and a half roads to get out — you have the main road and then you have the emergency access, everybody was trying to evacuate, there was a lot of confusion. – Linda Hunt	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Let's say it's a Monday or on Day Zero you get exposed. Day three, you might turn positive on a PCR later that night. Day three and a half or maybe early day four you might turn positive on an antigen test. And so, the whole idea of twice a week is to shave off a considerable part of people's infectious course, and so, if you're using it twice a week, even if you turn positive in the middle of your two tests, by the time you do test, especially because it's rapid, you'll be able to pull yourself out when you've only been spreading for one and a half or two days instead of five days and six days. – Michael Mina	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We see an Arctic warming about one and a half times faster in summer compared to the global average. – Ingo Sasgen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you meet face-to-face, you have to get everyone together into the lift, some people need to get their Starbucks… that one hour turns into one-and-a-half hours. – Khiem Do	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For over one-and-a-half years we have been sacrificing our education to protest against your inaction. – Greta Thunberg	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every one-and-a-half to two-years, these bodies are re-embalmed by the Moscow scientists. – Alexei Yurchak	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They told us by text that the police knew we were in that room and that they would come, and one and a half hours later, the police came to evacuate us. – Mamadou Dia	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We found that youth living in areas with strong licensing requirements were less likely to begin using e-cigarettes and cigarettes during the one and a half year follow-up, on average, compared to youth who resided in areas with weaker regulations. – Robert Urman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The effort to mine bitcoin around the world is consuming fully one and a half percent of the electricity output of the entire United States and is approaching 0.5 percent of the electricity output of the whole planet. That’s an enormous number. – Cullum Clark	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Say you want to go between Irvine and Ventura in the Los Angeles area. It can take you between one and a half and three hours if there are traffic jams, but by plane it will take you around 35 to 40 minutes, and within a controlled airspace you could have a lot of these planes flying around. – Josef Kallo	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Expectations are high and we know our responsibilities at this time, the team have been training for one-and-a-half years so the athletes know very well our pattern for games. – Frenchman Bruno Bini	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is important to know that in our study, stimulants had been used for only a fraction of a patient’s life, ranging between one and a half years to six years, it is not known if longer duration of stimulant treatment may alter the risk of obesity. – Seema Kumar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Last year’s bleaching at Lisianski Atoll was the worst our scientists have seen, almost one and a half square miles of reef bleached last year and are now completely dead. – Randy Kosaki	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Almost one and a half square miles of reef bleached last year and are now completely dead. we need to act locally and think globally to address these bleaching events. Locally produced threats to coral, such as pollution from the land and unsustainable fishing practices, stress the health of corals and decrease the likelihood that corals can either resist bleaching, or recover from it. – Jennifer Koss	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In the US, you've had this sort of wellness and health scene for years now with Whole Foods and the yoga movement, paleo and crossfit, in Hong Kong for instance, all of that 10 years is compressed into one and a half years. It's just been an astronomical shift here. Anywhere that you have a concentration of Type-A, highly educated, very well traveled people you get this focus on self-improvement. – Sonalie Figueiras	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Airline pilots have, over the past, reported some stuff that could have been black aircraft in flight tests, one and a half. – Ken Dyson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
To win the series last year was an incredible feeling. I had come in just hoping to showcase what I'd been doing in the (stage) shows before, i wasn't coming in expecting to win. Obviously, I was hopeful and I knew I had the highest degree of difficulty -- three forward somersaults in the pike position followed by one and a half twists. I wanted to show that I could execute that well. – Rachelle Simpson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
My son is six years old and my daughter is one and a half. – Mohammed Yasin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I lost my children last night at about 6 p.m. when the crowd was pushing, my son is six years old and my daughter is one and a half. – Mohammed Yasin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Over the next one and a half years or so, another 50 billion to 100 billion francs could follow, then the situation should largely be settled. – Martin Schilling	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
These policemen are an elite unit. It took them one and a half months to bring up that charge. They were waiting for the end of Eurovision to start the revenge campaign. – Journalist Mehman Huseynov	Found on CNN 9 years ago

What I have is a one-and-a-half-year-old grandson who had a cold who likes to kiss his pop.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

She’s just learning how to talk, she’s one and a half years old.

– David Lehman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I would say the pleasantries for taking the time to meet with us have gone out the window and we go right to the meat of the question. After one and a half years, we get right to it. We want an explanation why.

– Peter Vlitas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We only have one and a half roads to get out — you have the main road and then you have the emergency access, everybody was trying to evacuate, there was a lot of confusion.

– Linda Hunt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Let's say it's a Monday or on Day Zero you get exposed. Day three, you might turn positive on a PCR later that night. Day three and a half or maybe early day four you might turn positive on an antigen test. And so, the whole idea of twice a week is to shave off a considerable part of people's infectious course, and so, if you're using it twice a week, even if you turn positive in the middle of your two tests, by the time you do test, especially because it's rapid, you'll be able to pull yourself out when you've only been spreading for one and a half or two days instead of five days and six days.

– Michael Mina

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We see an Arctic warming about one and a half times faster in summer compared to the global average.

– Ingo Sasgen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When you meet face-to-face, you have to get everyone together into the lift, some people need to get their Starbucks… that one hour turns into one-and-a-half hours.

– Khiem Do

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For over one-and-a-half years we have been sacrificing our education to protest against your inaction.

– Greta Thunberg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every one-and-a-half to two-years, these bodies are re-embalmed by the Moscow scientists.

– Alexei Yurchak

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They told us by text that the police knew we were in that room and that they would come, and one and a half hours later, the police came to evacuate us.

– Mamadou Dia

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We found that youth living in areas with strong licensing requirements were less likely to begin using e-cigarettes and cigarettes during the one and a half year follow-up, on average, compared to youth who resided in areas with weaker regulations.

– Robert Urman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The effort to mine bitcoin around the world is consuming fully one and a half percent of the electricity output of the entire United States and is approaching 0.5 percent of the electricity output of the whole planet. That’s an enormous number.

– Cullum Clark

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Say you want to go between Irvine and Ventura in the Los Angeles area. It can take you between one and a half and three hours if there are traffic jams, but by plane it will take you around 35 to 40 minutes, and within a controlled airspace you could have a lot of these planes flying around.

– Josef Kallo

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Expectations are high and we know our responsibilities at this time, the team have been training for one-and-a-half years so the athletes know very well our pattern for games.

– Frenchman Bruno Bini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is important to know that in our study, stimulants had been used for only a fraction of a patient’s life, ranging between one and a half years to six years, it is not known if longer duration of stimulant treatment may alter the risk of obesity.

– Seema Kumar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Last year’s bleaching at Lisianski Atoll was the worst our scientists have seen, almost one and a half square miles of reef bleached last year and are now completely dead.

– Randy Kosaki

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Almost one and a half square miles of reef bleached last year and are now completely dead. we need to act locally and think globally to address these bleaching events. Locally produced threats to coral, such as pollution from the land and unsustainable fishing practices, stress the health of corals and decrease the likelihood that corals can either resist bleaching, or recover from it.

– Jennifer Koss

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In the US, you've had this sort of wellness and health scene for years now with Whole Foods and the yoga movement, paleo and crossfit, in Hong Kong for instance, all of that 10 years is compressed into one and a half years. It's just been an astronomical shift here. Anywhere that you have a concentration of Type-A, highly educated, very well traveled people you get this focus on self-improvement.

– Sonalie Figueiras

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Airline pilots have, over the past, reported some stuff that could have been black aircraft in flight tests, one and a half.

– Ken Dyson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

To win the series last year was an incredible feeling. I had come in just hoping to showcase what I'd been doing in the (stage) shows before, i wasn't coming in expecting to win. Obviously, I was hopeful and I knew I had the highest degree of difficulty -- three forward somersaults in the pike position followed by one and a half twists. I wanted to show that I could execute that well.

– Rachelle Simpson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My son is six years old and my daughter is one and a half.

– Mohammed Yasin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I lost my children last night at about 6 p.m. when the crowd was pushing, my son is six years old and my daughter is one and a half.

– Mohammed Yasin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Over the next one and a half years or so, another 50 billion to 100 billion francs could follow, then the situation should largely be settled.

– Martin Schilling

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

These policemen are an elite unit. It took them one and a half months to bring up that charge. They were waiting for the end of Eurovision to start the revenge campaign.

– Journalist Mehman Huseynov

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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