You could say,for example, that a bad idea is not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

It was the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, which is held every four years at Fort A.P.Hill army base.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

It held for a while. Then Union soldiers acting without orders forced their way to the top of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

A huge form that looks like a hill or wave takes up an entire room of the museum.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

He was a member of the hip-hop group called the Fugees with Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel Samuel Michel, also known as Pras.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

The highest point of the softly curved hill measures about three meters tall, while the lowest point is only a few centimeters thick.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The top of each wave was a hill, from which the men could see, for a brief period, a wide area of shining sea.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

They made their lines along a partly-built railroad on the side of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Hundreds of men and women watched the fight from a hill near Centreville.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

At sunrise,Lee arrived on a hill outside the town of Appomattox Court House.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

They burned the captured supplies. Then they moved a few kilometers away to a long, low hill just northwest of the Bull Run battleground, where southern forces defeated a northern army a year before.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill studied the eating habits of American children over a 30-year period.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

The runway is built on a flat stretch of land on a hill, with a sheer drop on both sides.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

The president spoke against a backdrop of negotiations on Capitol Hill on proposed health care legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"So it's a stone person standing on a hill and that is the official symbol of these Olympic Games in Vancouver and up in Whistler.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Army commandos dropped from a helicopter examined the mangled and burnt wreckage on the slope of a heavily-forested hill, in an area infested with Maoist rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

At a hearing of the bipartisan Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill, lawmakers from both major U.S.political parties cited the November unemployment figure as welcome progress.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Guide Joao Monteiro steps lightly amidst the ruins of a 16th century fort, on a hill overlooking the town of Cidade Velha on the southern coast of the Cape Verdean island of Santiago.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

White House officials also say Mr.Obama will go to Capitol Hill on Sunday to meet with Democratic lawmakers on efforts to advance health care reform, a key part of the president's economic plan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

"The scene here at the bottom of the hill where hundreds of houses have been destroyed by a landslide caused by the earthquake, the scene is one of rescue, it's just pure rescue effort that seems devoid of emotion,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

But I think Iran needs to do a much better job of respecting Iraq's sovereignty and they should start by ceasing to provide weaponry to various extremist groups in Iraq" Looking ahead to parliamentary elections in Iraq in January, Georgia Democrat David Scott and Ambassador Hill had this exchange about the question of a possible referendum on the U.S.military presence in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10