The number of Japanese students in the United States decreased for the fourth year, to just over twenty-nine thousand.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

He told her his ideas about how species evolve over time -- what he called the transmutation of species.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

To get a credit card, they will need a parent or other adult over twenty-one to accept joint responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

If you stayed only ten minutes in each store, it would take over eighty-six hours to complete your visit.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The study involved forty-four traders and their profits and losses over a twenty-month period ending in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

The owners of the historic building say a planned make-over will reduce energy use in the building by thirty-eight percent.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

But in a recent study they declared that forty percent of the tweets captured over a two-week period were "pointless babble."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

It is a nationwide program that connects people over age fifty-five with elementary school students from low-income families.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

In New York, the United Nations secretary-general reacted to a dispute over e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in England.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

But he points out that technology has also made new music available to people all over the world twenty-four hours a day.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Yet he thought that slavery would die out naturally over time -- and that outsiders should not force southerners to end slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

People infected with the virus walk in a bent-over position because of the severe pain in the joints.

VOA: special.2009.04.13

People over sixty-five are covered by the Medicare insurance program which the government created in nineteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.03.24