He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

About nine hundred years ago, the Ancestral Puebloan people built villages high in the walls of canyons in Mesa Verde,Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

More than one hundred years after her birth, Ayn Rand's books,thoughts, and actions continue to be important to many people.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

For nearly a hundred years, Mr.Whisenant's family has grown fruits and vegetables, and sold them to businesses around the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Randolph Roth studied homicide rates over the past four hundred years in parts of the United States and western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

They are depressed. Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Archeologists know that the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians lived in the Frijoles Canyon for more than four hundred years.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The report says temperatures are estimated to increase by several degrees Celsius in the next one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.12