During almost a year of recovery, Gardot turned to music to help her heal both mentally and physically.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

That decision came on November thirteenth, nineteen fifty-six, almost a year after Missus Parks's arrest.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

General Grant had been trying to break General Lee's line for almost a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier - the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Last year,Doctor Chan reported that a long-term study of almost fifty thousand men showed that aspirin can help prevent colon cancer.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

That was down from last year, when more than three thousand walkers raised almost seven and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

During the first year, the women kept a monthly average of almost nine kilograms of vegetables for home use.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Last year Doctor Chan reported that a long-term study of almost fifty thousand men showed that aspirin can help prevent colon cancer.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

A recent report predicted that the number of mobile phone accounts worldwide will reach almost four and a half billion this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

He stayed for almost one year. He was able to get a few paying jobs playing the saxophone.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

The GAVI Alliance says almost two million children a year die from diseases that vaccines can prevent.

VOA: special.2011.06.15

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Some take more work. Others take almost no work but may require waiting up to a year.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

In nineteen seventy, the average American ate almost four kilograms of turkey a year.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

There were almost four hundred sixty deaths a year from liver failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

In two thousand eight, that increased to almost eight kilograms a year.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

American exports decreased almost 2% in November from a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Japanese exports decreased almost 27% in November from a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

"There were about 100,102 separate tribal conflicts last year, and as a result of that, there were almost 400,000 people which were newly displaced.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23