Word: two-and-one-half
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...told the tale of the businessman who nearly lost wife & job for lack of a cup of tea. And a Robert Ripleyan page of wonders graphically illustrated the fact that if all the tea which the world produces each year were stacked up it would make a structure two-and-one-half times the volume of the Empire State Building. Having persuaded millions of his countrymen to purge their way to pepticity through Feen-A-Mint and to smoke themselves into salubrity with Camels, Adman William Esty of Manhattan was now out to cure them with the cups that cheer...
...yards behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing her tall figure, concealing her face, and, in its upturned brim that circled her shapely head, forming the semblance of a halo, that gave her the air of one of the saints or angels that, in color, looked down from the gorgeous memorial windows on every hand. . . ." Actually the two-and-one-half columns showed a degree of restraint. Miss Devereux has been known to devote four columns to a wedding or ball, 16 columns to a day's social news. To her, debutantes are "rosebuds," a dining table...
Spitting on their hands, 600 brawny Breton & Norman shipwrights rushed out to the launching ways, took their stations and stood ready to pull the wedges. The stupendous hull (longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall) had been anointed with 43 tons of tallow, two-and-one-half tons of lard and more than a ton of soap. The grease alone cost 150,000 francs...
Australia and Great Britain at another end of the table began dickering for an agreement whereby Britain would receive free entry of her manufactured goods in exchange for a guarantee of Australia' refunding loan on her two-and-one-half billion dollar debt...
...During the same period, per capita consumption of alcohol was multiplied more than two-and-one-half times...