The leaves on many of the trees have already begun to change color as they prepare to drop to the ground.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

" Some one with both feet on the ground is a person with a good understanding of reality.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The snow is so deep in some areas that it will stay on the ground well into the hot days of summer.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

The New Victorian School had burned to the ground because of an electrical problem on January twelfth,two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

When there is fresh snow on the ground, the surface of the snow takes in, or absorbs,sound waves.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The force threw little Bill out of the wagon and he landed on the sandy ground.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor of the apartment building.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

The Council explains on its Web site that early tall buildings were generally measured from the ground floor to the top of the building, not including flagpoles.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

"But the actual negotiations of the loan conditions on the ground is done by technocratic economists, staff members at the IMF, and they're going to continue to do their job."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

It was just lying on the ground. All you had to do was go to Alaska, and then to the Klondike area of the Yukon Territory of Canada and collect your gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - NATO has struggled,at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of twenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Mr.Ban says he will visit some of the hardest hit areas, including the conflict zone, to assess conditions on the ground .

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

Other gun owners openly showed their weapons as they stood at the border of Washington on Virginia ground.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The international forces will handle the two outer tiers on the ground and in the air for the thousands of polling stations nationwide.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

This is not just about getting boots on the ground. This is part of NATO's strategy for getting Afghanistan back on its feet.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

But the NATO chief said it underlines the solidarity of the 44 ISAF countries and will have a "powerful effect on the ground."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Unconfirmed rumors on the ground say Hamas is clearing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

The Obama administration would like to begin a withdrawal of U.S.troops from Afghanistan by July of next year, depending on circumstances on the ground.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Army General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S.and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has sent his evaluation of the situation on the ground to Mr.Obama and European leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29