1. Police said that at half past nine that night, its hotline had received a call about the killing.
2. Backing the complex project is a proprietary software system the firm developed over the past year and a half.
3. Although firecracker blasts were less intense in metropolitan Manila than in the past, more than half of the accidents occurred in the congested capital of 12 million people.
4. With two minutes to half past two, your agony brought deafening sounds.
5. The Italian exchange lost half its value in the past three years amid a dearth of IPOs and the drop in stock prices since 2007.
6. Defender Sylvain Distin's dreadful error allowed Spurs to go in front just past the half hour with Mido's ninth league goal of the season.
7. The couple spent nearly half of their time practicing diabolo for the show over the past few months.
8. These metropolitan belts have served as the most important engine for China's economic expansion over the past two and a half decades.
9. A whopping US $ 8 trillion in wealth has evaporated in the past two and a half years.
10. The nationwide inspection comes after three food poisoning incidents in school canteens in Yunnan province over the past one and a half months.