It represents more than a million students every year who entered ninth grade but do not complete twelfth grade.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

In some cases, the resulting paths of damage can stretch more than a kilometer wide and eighty kilometers long.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

To some people,they are nothing more than a harmless treat or a guilty pleasure to enjoy from time to time.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Major banks have been doing well since the worst of the financial crisis shook Wall Street more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

It left more than a million other people homeless in a nation where most citizens were already living in deep poverty.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The group stated that the national day for the environment would be "more than a day of fruitless talking."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

They refused to trust even Japanese-American families who had lived in the United States for more than a century.

VOA: special.2011.06.30

The Seventh Amendment gives the same right in civil cases that involve more than a small amount of money.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

The United States has lost more than three and a half million jobs since the recession began more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

It really began with the death of the Bank of the United States more than a year before.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

For more than a century, scientists in California have made maps of rocky areas that might contain asbestos.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio says the cluster headache can be many times more intense than a migraine.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

The U.N.World Food Program says more than a billion people one in six worldwide do not get enough food to be healthy.

VOA: special.2009.11.23