The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The University of Illinois Extension advises getting bare-root roses as close to planting time as you can.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

The pro-slavery majority quickly voted to move to a town close to the Missouri border.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

To safely capture up-close film footage of tornadoes, some project participants traveled in a seven-ton, armored tornado intercept vehicle directly into tornadoes as they formed.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

Some might enjoy riding bicycles through Shark Valley, while others may want to move slowly through shallow waters where insects and wildlife can be seen up-close.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Close to three hundred thousand people have taken part since nineteen forty-six.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

Men now make close to one-fifth of the complaints.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The Environmental Protection Agency, is keeping a close watch on threats to the delicate eco-system along the coastline.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Smith-Valade added they underestimated the degree to which people would want to get close to the Olympic cauldron.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

North Korea is warning the United States not to send surveillance planes too close to the site of a planned long-range rocket launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

For serious action fans, this convention is as close as some will get to meeting their real-life super heroes - or just acting like one.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The Obama administration says there are no plans to close the 3,000 kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Secretary Gates is a co-chair of the task force President Obama formed to decide how to close the facility and what to do with the detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

Current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose State of Law alliance came a very close second to former Prime Minister Iyad Alawi's Iraqiya, is leading the caretaker government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04