Two and a half years ago, we even managed to capture the first direct pictures of alien worlds.
两年半前,我们甚至设法捕捉到了外星世界的第一直接画面。
It resisted belief. She had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer two and a half years earlier; I had known for months that she was going to die.
我更拒绝相信的是,她早在两年半前已经被诊断出肠癌,而我,直到她快要死去的几个月前才知道她的病情。
Researchers also discovered the husband and wife who will stay true to their 「til death us do part」 vow will have met through friends - and tied the knot after three and a half years together.
研究人员还发现,经朋友认识、并在交往三年半后结婚的夫妇会长相厮守。
But they do know that, three and a half years after apparent boasts of victory, there are still a lot of American troops in Iraq, and the place looks an utter mess on the evening news.
但他们当然知道,表面上夸耀胜利之后三年半,依然有许多美军留驻伊拉克,从晚间新闻看到的那个地方完全是一团糟。
After two and a half years they were still more than three kilos heavier than when the study began.
过去了两年半的时间之后,他们仍比研究开始的时候重三千克。
I pointed at Pete and said he hadn「t spent six and a half years in the prison known as the Hanoi Hilton because he wanted to colonize Vietnam.
我指着皮特说,他在被称为「河内希尔顿」的监狱里待了六年,但原因并不是因为想在越南开拓殖民地。
B.F. Skinner’s second daughter spent the first two and a half years of her life in a box.
「不要吻他们」他写道,「也别让他们坐到你的大腿上」B.F.Skinner?的二女儿在她人生的头两年半都待在盒子里面。
There was some advance in the last one and a half years in that people were able to identify cross-reactive monoclonal antibodies-antibodies that can be protective against a variety of strains.
在过去的一年半中有一些进展,因为人们能够识别可交叉反映的单克隆抗体——能够预防多个变种的抗体。
One and a half years later, I think the case is closed.
一年半之后,我认为这个案例已经结束了。
That being said, I still use a lot of the strategies and tips that I」ll discuss at the conference after 23 and a half years in the business.
她表示:「话虽如此,在供职于金融业23年半之后,我将于大会上讲到的许多策略与技巧,今天我仍然在使用。」
We began our work together, four and a half years ago, with a call for a 「new multilateralism」 —a new spirit of collective action.
四年半前,我们秉持「新多边主义」的精神,力求在国际事务上采取协同一致的行动。
Parents were quizzed about the types and frequency of the food and drink their children consumed when they were three, four, seven and eight and a half years old.
在这些儿童三岁、四岁、七岁和八岁半时,研究人员向孩子的父母询问了孩子所摄入的饮食的种类,以及隔多长时间进食。
Her father, Carmine Marotta, died six and a half years ago.
她父亲,卡梅伦·马洛塔,死于六个半月前。
Three and a half years later, the Libyan data in the Sinjar records have become a subject of renewed interest, for obvious reasons.
三年半以后,这份记录中关于利比亚的数据因为一些明显的因素成为一些新兴趣的目标。