They are joined by hundreds of Afghan soldiers, trying to clear insurgents from the town of Sayedebad in Helmand Province.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The first seat belt was said to have been created in the eighteen hundreds by George Cayley of England.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Some of them are paths made in the early nineteen hundreds by men who climbed the mountain to cut trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

His early works were influenced by composers of the classical period of the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

He died last year. By that time, hundreds of thousands of the filters were in use in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

The World Health Organization says hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are affected by mental,behavioral,neurological or substance use disorders.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

And they came by the hundreds of thousands to take jobs in steel factories in Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

By the middle eighteen-hundreds, almost all the eastern Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

By the middle of the eighteen-hundreds, dirt roads had been built in parts of the nation.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

By comparison, each weed plant can produce tens or even hundreds of thousands of seeds.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The cities were built hundreds of years ago by a people that no longer existed.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

They also know that by the middle fifteen hundreds people left their villages and cave homes and moved south and east toward the Rio Grande River.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced by the latest fighting in Swat and other parts of North West Frontier province.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

By the late eighteen hundreds, the years of the cowboys were ending.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

He was influenced by Italian theater traditions of the late sixteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Hundreds of thousands of people see the canyon by air each year.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

The town was settled by Bavarian Germans in the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Hundreds of people were rescued by boats from their flooded homes.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

By the late eighteen hundreds, railroads reached the area.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

By the early nineteen-hundreds, American cities had grown.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

They came by the hundreds of thousands.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The settlements, whose growth has been promoted by past Israeli governments, are home to hundreds of thousands of Israelis.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Hundreds of electric utility companies are trying to burnish their green credentials by offering customers the option of supporting alternative energy.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Hundreds of houses were flattened and flooded by the two million cubic meters of water that ripped through the Dutch-colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"There were hundreds of millions of people traveling the world without having their documents checked by Interpol,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Although it was a limited-run program, hundreds of tracks by Miles Davis were beamed across the country, non-stop and commercial-free for five straight days.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The European Union offered more than one-half-billion dollars in assistance and hundreds of millions more have been pledged by the United States and other nations.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

Pakistani security forces largely succeeded in preventing mass demonstrations by political activists and lawyers earlier this week by blocking roads and arresting hundreds of protest leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15