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• The French Broad should be a foot and a half high, lazy and blue.
  — Susanne Paola Antonetta, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• Those guests are there for two and a half to three and a half hours.
  — Demarco Williams, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• The price of the home, which has three bedrooms and two and a half baths, varies.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
• The film spawned eight sequels over the next four and a half decades.
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 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
• Three more followed over the next two and a half years.
  — Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
• The top-to-bottom makeover took more than two and a half years.
  — Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• The most time spent at Number One (two and a half years).
  — Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
• 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
• It’s almost been a year and a half since you’ve been hired.
  — Antonio Morales, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
• The Atlantic Ocean has been running a fever for the past year and a half.
  — Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 2 July 2024
• Herbert has spent the last four and a half seasons with the Bears.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• His arrest took place two and a half weeks ago, and the world moves fast.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 June 2024
• Reciting it in front of the jury took five and a half hours.
  — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Mark Wahlberg, who moved to Las Vegas about two and a half years ago, had the idea for all of this.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The Dow dropped about 400 points (around 1%) and the Nasdaq dropped again after its worst day in two and a half years.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
• 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 rise of autocratic regimes across the world over the last decade and a half has put democrats on high alert.
  — Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
• The video was only a minute and a half long, but has now been viewed more than 7 million times.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2024
• The interview went from six minutes to an hour and a half.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• Being three minutes away instead of an hour and a half was huge.
  — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025