"The music here is more complicated and harder, but I think it's partly because it's also with woodwinds and brass, basically with a band.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

It's basically a parking lot." The Newseum, a museum of news in Washington,D.C., has an exhibit called "Woodstock at 40: The Rise of Music Journalism."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

A hoop house is basically a metal frame covered with plastic or other all-weather material.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

"If the monsoon basically fails or is a very weak one, the trees affected by monsoons at that location might put on a very narrow ring.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

"This is Derek and I have another son,Dillon. I basically looked through baby books and just found names that I thought were a little bit different.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

And basically ten percent of us buy ninety percent of the wine.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

"We discovered this bicycle co-op. You can come in there and just sort through a whole garage of old parts and they'll teach you how to basically build a bicycle from the scraps."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

So basically, if we were to place a baby on the mother's abdomen, the baby would actually crawl up the mother's chest and choose which breast it would like to latch on to.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

"GAVI's goal over the next five years, by twenty-fifteen, is to immunize millions more children and save an additional four million children's lives, purely by providing basic vaccines against diseases that are basically almost non-existent in rich countries, as well as providing new vaccines against pneumonia,diarrheal diseases and then hopefully HPV and some other vaccine-preventable diseases."

VOA: special.2011.06.15

"President Obama was the first one to call a spade a spade, basically to say it was an invasion.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

"Turkmenistan,they are stating a position that they consider basically their policy is that they the gas the border.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

"Basically,who are we trying to soothe,you know? We might release statements and whatnot, but are we going to sue them?

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"The summit will start to discuss basically the deal of who will get this very important position,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

Former EU Special Representative to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell says there are basically three broad groups: ordinary Afghans disillusioned with poor governance and corruption;

VOA: standard.2009.03.11