Then the old man and woman held the rain babies in the palms of their hands or they rocked them to sleep in a pair of wooden shoes.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

I'm aimin' to have a pair of shoes and some other things.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

I took a pair of dark green eyeglasses with me.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

She tried on a pair of new boots.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

"There's a snazzy jacket and I am going to get a pair of mitts for my brother."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

"Someone said that he had made a cellphone call following the quake but the monsignor was holding a pair of glasses in his right hand.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

The global reach of the Marley tribute CD includes a pair of Canadian vocalists, two groups from Hawaii, and the veteran string band from the northeastern U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Police say they recovered a pair of AK-47 rifles, two grenades,ammunition,false passports and other counterfeit identification from two men suspected of belonging to the group Hizbul Mujahideen.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

The same village was hit by a pair of suicide-bombers on August 13.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us!", she might have been writing about the women and men who tended her kitchen hearth and household grounds in the quiet country town of Amherst, Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The Black Satellites have battled through some adversity to reach the final, edging South Africa in extra time in the first elimination match, and surviving a pair of exciting 3-2 games that came down to the wire in the quarter and semifinals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

On the floor at her feet lay a tiny pair of shoes.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

They say Islam's holy book,the Koran, states men and women were created as equal parts of a pair.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19