The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

When it is cold outside, the president and his family can warm up near one of the White House's twenty-eight fireplaces.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

During one week in nineteen forty-eight, poisonous air in a nearby town killed twenty people and sickened six thousand others.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

The Justice at Stake Campaign says candidates raised one hundred sixty-eight million dollars between two thousand and two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

One example he uses in his two thousand eight book is Huddie Ledbetter, the singer and guitarist known as Lead Belly.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Since the demonstrations began in March, at least eighty-three people were killed and one thousand eight hundred wounded.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

"It's a great honor to be included as one of the recipients of the two thousand and eight Cable Television Hall of Fame."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

One study involved sixty-eight healthy young women and men who ran at least twenty-four kilometers a week.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

It involved more than one thousand one hundred children between the ages of eight and fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

FM radio stations transmit in a range of frequencies between eighty-eight and one hundred eight megahertz.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

Professor Keyak says the measurement is much greater than monthly reductions in bone mineral density of point four percent and one point eight percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Eight-sixty-one Jasmine Street had been a fine house once, but now it was old and dying.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

He discovered that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds between three hundred kilometers a second and one thousand eight hundred kilometers a second.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Of the eight, only one was found guilty, and only in a very limited way.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

I'll take you anywhere in the city." "I want to go to eight-sixty-one Jasmine Street." I said, and I started to climb into the carriage.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

He struck out eight hitters, walked five and permitted only one run last Sunday.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

They returned to Roosevelt Field eight days, fifteen hours and fifty-one minutes later.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Only eight and one half percent of Finns said that was true.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

His space flight lasted one hour and forty-eight minutes.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

He explained his position many times in speeches,debates and letters, including this one written in eighteen fifty-eight: I have made it equally plain that I think the negro is included in the word "men" used in the Declaration of Independence.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

which spent eight weeks at Number One on the Country chart, and also reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30