Everything worked as planned. Everyone expected the third moon-landing flight, Apollo Thirteen, would go as well as the first two.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Also,the root can stay in the ground for as long as three years, so it can be harvested as needed.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

BP's market value fell more than sixty billion dollars as its share price fell by as much as a third.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

The city's population grew between two thousand and two thousand seven, but not as fast as the country as a whole.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

It could not produce as much military equipment, and it could not transport supplies as easily as the North could.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

But as early as the middle seventeen hundreds, Cape May began to be known as a place to visit in the summer.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

As a plant scientist, he may have saved more lives than anyone else in history as many as a billion, by some estimates.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Many people think these classical works are not as great as some of his musical plays for Broadway such as "On the Town,"

VOA: special.2009.08.02

As early as eighteen thirty-seven, he imagined this process as a tree with branches representing new species.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

As the snow melted, workers were busy picking up broken branches, some as thick as fifteen centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

She wrote that,as a child, she expected all white people to be as kind as they were.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

As a result, the side effects of the drugs can be as dangerous as the disease itself.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Lincoln chose William Seward as secretary of state, Salmon Chase as Treasury secretary, Gideon Welles as Navy secretary and Montgomery Blair as postmaster general.

VOA: special.2009.07.30