The World Health Organization estimates that cardiovascular disease killed seventeen and a half million people in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The walls of water also struck a number of other nations, and killed more than two hundred thirty thousand people.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

During one week in nineteen forty-eight, poisonous air in a nearby town killed twenty people and sickened six thousand others.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

A study published in Stroke last year involved about two thousand people with an average age of sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

And he showed how to change one thousand five hundred words into a living language that informed,educated and entertained millions of people.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

The latest information from the Tombstone Chamber of Commerce says the town has a population of about one thousand five hundred people.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

That is true,at least, of most of one thousand two hundred people who recently answered questions for a study on the issue.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

And in two thousand eight, seventeen people died in Senegal after lead exposure from a battery recycling center.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

The Census Bureau says that in two thousand seven, thirty-six and a half million people in the United States claimed Irish ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The study found that worldwide, more than two and a half million people age ten to twenty-four died in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The experts also said people should take less than four thousand milligrams of acetaminophen in a single day.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

More than four hundred thousand people came from around the country to a farm in Bethel,New York.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

They also said people should take less than four thousand milligrams of acetaminophen in a single day.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

I have a dream today." A march on Washington had brought about two hundred fifty thousand people to demand racial equality and freedom.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

More than one thousand people staying at the hotel were taken to a nearby high school.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

In Aceh Province alone,up to one hundred seventy thousand unsuspecting people died in a short time.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

He met with European Union leaders and spoke to a crowd of about twenty thousand people.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Sleeping sickness is a deadly disease that infects about sixty thousand people in Africa each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The F.T.C.estimates that food,drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

About twenty thousand people a year see the Grand Canyon from the Colorado River itself.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

"Actually,there were a lot of Chinese going back to the People's Republic of China at that time, ninety-thousand in one year from Fukien Province alone.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

It left more than two hundred thousand people dead and about a million homeless.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

The Millennium Development Goals for two thousand fifteen call for a fifty percent decrease in the number of people without safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Frankenmuth is a town of five thousand people in eastern Michigan's farm country.

VOA: special.2009.12.25