The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

The Justice Department says rates in recent years fell to levels last seen in the middle of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

He had to take care of her. He says he woke up in the middle of the night as usual.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

You would not want to get off one horse and on to another in the middle of a river.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The two soldiers appear to be stopped in the middle of their preparations by thoughts of home and family.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

The man told Lincoln that Europeans saw the war more clearly than Americans, who were in the middle of it.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Later designs brought a large area in the middle for the hay and feeding stations all around for the cows.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

Late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Counterfeit medications are also a problem in the Middle East and in many countries of the former Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

I may come up with an idea and it may end up being something in the middle of the piece.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

A new mother,for example, quickly learns to try to sleep when her baby is quiet, even in the middle of the day.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The painting hangs in a circular room and completely surrounds visitors standing in the middle of the space.

VOA: special.2010.08.04