We even took the tops off the tables to see if he had hidden the letter in the table legs.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Many years later, settlers used the tar,or asphalt, on the tops of their houses to keep water out.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

They found that painting the tops of buildings white could possibly help to cool cities and slow the effects of climate change.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Food containers that are not waterproof include those with screw caps, snap lids,pull tops and crimped caps.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

In some areas there, monkeys play in the tops of mangroves thirty meters tall and dolphins swim in the waters of mangrove forests.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Walking tops the list. A two thousand six report from the C.D.C.found that more than seventy-nine million Americans walk to stay physically fit.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Pay attention to the places where snow can enter, like the tops of boots, the necks of coats and the wrist areas of mittens.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

About two thousand five hundred years ago the first houses appeared on the flat tops of mesas in what is now northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The sharp metal barbs tore the skin of the men who stretched it along fence tops.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

When the chili peppers are thirty centimeters high, pinch the tops off with your fingers.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Dark roof tops hold in more than eighty percent of the energy from sunlight.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Many people moved from the mesa tops to the bottom of Frijoles Canyon.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

But Earlham College President Douglas Bennett says one choice tops all others.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

And not just the root but also the tops can be eaten.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Spires are the thin, pointy tops of buildings.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

She was also named Artist of the Year, and her Fearless album tops the Billboard 200 and Country Albums year-end charts.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

(MUSIC:"Love Story.") Taylor Swift tops an astounding including the Hot 100 Airplay Songs list, for her Number One single,"Love Story."

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

(No Transcripts:13 seconds) Trade has been growing by 30 percent annually for much of this decade, and now tops $100-billion a year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Boy, I heard some whoppersin my time, but that tops them all.

VOA: standard.other

Other bus, other bus. Let's go. MOLINA. ; Egg shells, carrot tops.

VOA: standard.other

Helping breeders quickly develop better varieties of all these crops will be crucial as the world population tops 9 billion by 2050 in the face of a changing climate.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01