Other birds, like the red-winged blackbirds and eastern bluebirds, are laying eggs earlier because of warmer temperatures.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Experts generally suggest laying mulch to a depth of about ten centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Echidnas are part of a group of egg-laying mammals called monotremes.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

More than ninety percent of these jobs will be in the private sector -- jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, laying broadband and expanding mass transit."

VOA: special.2009.02.27

"That means protecting the rights of Egypt's citizens, lifting the emergency law, revising the constitution and other laws to make this change irreversible and laying out a clear path to elections that are fair and free.

VOA: special.2011.02.12

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' official spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, accused Israel of laying further obstacles to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

He says he hopes the U.S.and Burma could "take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future."

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

The Obama administration says it is laying the groundwork to develop a vaccine against swine flu, although no decision has been made on large-scale production of such a vaccine.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Even in modern times, you can find people in apartments laying there for ten years after death and been mummified because of a specific airflow and temperature which supported the mummification procedure."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

In between he spoke of helping one-industry towns, raising pension benefits, enticing migr and foreign scientists, building housing for veterans, constructing roads, central bank lending,elimination of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, fighting drug addiction, encouraging sports, laying fiber optic cables, bringing the Internet to faraway regions and GPS systems to automobiles.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12