"In Canada it's pretty much the same as the U.S. It's very consumer based, where we buy chocolate.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

"I don't remember any one in particular. I mean,they're pretty much the same, like we'll just celebrate, exchange cards, may go out to dinner.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

"You'll find something on Earth as close to what is pretty much on Mars.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

My whole room pretty much looked like a miniature zoo."

VOA: special.2010.12.28

"We're pretty much done." "For everybody."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

"It was pretty much of a shock when I got here. I mean,if you're going to talk to some of your friends about some of the stuff you saw -- and you can't describe the smells, the feeling of the heat on your body and the sweat running down your back.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

They pretty much come in the front door. But the British pop in the window and nip out the back door,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

After a half-century,the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has pretty much come up empty.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Celsi Cowan is no stranger to the gym. "It's pretty much a regular routine."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

"We are pretty much back to what the situation was before the trial, where she is still under house arrest although the conditions of her detention,house arrest, have been eased somewhat,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

"The present situation is where religious extremists - whether they be the Taliban or whether they be one of the very many other jihaidst groups that were early on nurtured by the Pakistan army - they are pretty much beyond control now,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

"It was pretty much of a shock when I got here." "I mean,if you're going to talk to some of your friends of some of the stuff you saw and you can't describe the smells, the feeling of the heat on your body and the sweat running down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose of unwashed bodies in a closed room, the circulation, the smell of your own panic when you're not sure what to do" Other doctors in the film echo Dr.Krueger's sentiments.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Farrah Fawcett spent much of her career working hard to prove that she was more than just a pretty face.

VOA: special.2009.12.27