"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

A robot would then pick up rocks and soil, and send them back to earth for testing.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

He is crying for a reason. If you never pick him up, he's going to keep crying.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

And that's one of the things Jacob was noted for. His level of expression is so profound that even with a few strokes, he can pick up the action and show it to you".

VOA: special.2009.09.02

By 2012,they hope to set up a network of pick-up and drop-off locations for rented bicycles throughout New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

And there is a wildlife agent telling us 'go pick up your traps, I don't care what they have on them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Everyone has a small boat and can pick up tourists and get money from tourists every day or every month depending on the season,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

They range from simple pick-up trucks with camper units attached to deluxe recreational vehicles - or RVs - as big as a moving van.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

"Most of the economies, including Thailand, showed a pick-up in the second quarter GDP, the Asian region was leading the turn around in the global picture,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Somehow,somewhere,security officials did not pick up on the information at their disposal that allowed an individual on a security watch list onto a plane bound for the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The dogs pick up on that." "They know that their owner has just dissociated and a lot of them will just spontaneously nudge their owners to try to kind of get them back to consciousness."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"It may cost one or two seats to be lost in tough districts, but I think once people really find out what this bill does and how good a job he's done and the Democrats have done, I think they may very well pick up some seats."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25