To ease credit, the Bank of England last week reduced its main interest rate to 1.5% - its lowest ever.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

His records include bouncing a ball the fastest for one mile,or 1.6 kilometers, on the Great Wall of China.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

For example, a person was 20% more likely to feel happy if a friend living within 1.5 kilometers was also happy.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

The first plane ever to fly faster than the speed of sound was the X-1 in nineteen forty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

But after the attacks, 9 out of 10 Americans approved of the job he was doing, compared lately to about 1 in 4.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

The United Nations says that 1/3 of the people south of the Sahara Desert suffer from hunger.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

These include rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, a condition that affects the digestive system.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Britain's economy may have shrunk by 1% just in the final 3 months of last year.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The number of cancer cases and deaths from cancer are expected to increase 1% each year.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The team found the islands and nearby waters are home to more than 1,200 known species.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

In the memorial, there is the X-1, the first airplane to fly faster than sound.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

On February fourteenth, Stardust will approach to within two hundred kilometers of comet Temple 1.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

About 1/3 is tax cuts for individuals and businesses and 2/3 is government spending.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

"It is already in the hands of 1.2 million children, in 31 countries,19 languages.

VOA: special.2010.04.12