The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index had its biggest jump in six years in May.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

A visitor has to resist the urge to jump in for a swim.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

The World Health Organization reports a 75 percent jump in the number of confirmed swine flu cases worldwide since Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

But the point-one percent jump in the unemployment rate from May was more modest than had been anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The Fed chief spoke amid word of higher U.S.consumer spending, which rose 1.3 percent in August the biggest jump in nearly eight years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The government forecasts a 61 percent jump in gross ticket sales this year, which could turn the nation's new silver screens into boxoffice gold.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

You can bend over and look at your reflection, or you can jump in thrash around, see it what it feels like, what it smells like.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

President Obama cited a jump in Chinese imports when he announced the tariff.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

America's battered housing sector also got a dose of encouraging news, with a national index reporting a three percent jump in housing prices in the second quarter of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Last week saw positive U.S.economic news, with increases in home sales and housing prices, a jump in manufacturing activity, a drop in new jobless claims, and a new growth figure showing the economy shrinking far less than had been anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

Anyways,I will risk forty dollars and bet you that he can jump farther than any frog in Calaveras County."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

And so he never done nothing for three months but sit in his back yard and teach that frog to jump.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

This week in our Foreign Student Series, we jump ahead to the subject of where to live.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

And when it come to jumping, he could get over more ground in one jump than any animal of his kind that you ever saw.

VOA: special.2009.08.29