To put this in perspective, this means light could circle around the Earth seven and a half times in just one second.
Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said Fitzpatrick had practiced only three and a half times in the last five weeks because of a torn meniscus in his left knee.
On average, obstetricians are sued two and a half times in their career, although they win a majority of the cases, legal and medical experts say.
Figures from the United States Department of Agriculture show herbicide use skyrocketing in soybeans, a leading G.M. crop, growing by two and a half times in the last two decades, at a time when planted acreage of the crop grew by less than a third.
Now we're talking about increasing sales two and a half times in five years.
Friedman says downloads were up three and a half times in the last two weeks since the company announced its new pricing plan compared to the full month before the announcement.
Also, females and males both shared injection equipment about four and a half times in the past month, with no significant gender difference [ 24].
For some reason it is introduced three (and a half) times in one paragraph, each time slightly differently: "the intensity of attempts to bind... ........, "a frequency ('conditional intensity') of binding attempts" and "the parameter of a Poisson stochastic process".
Twitter says the number of tweets to brands and their customer service usernames has increased two-and-a-half times in the past two years.
David Villa scored a hat-trick in four minutes for Valencia but this was the quickest hat-trick in Barcelona's history, level with Dani García who got three versus Betis in 1999 (although his had a half-time in the way) and Laszlo Kubala's 74th to 82nd minute hat-trick against Sporting in 1953.
