United Nations officials say about 40,000 Tamils have returned to their villages in the past two weeks under Colombo's resettlement plan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

About 40 percent of households in this mostly African-American, low-to-middle income neighborhood don't have access to a car.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

(SAYING:mortality rates in the United States) About 40 percent of the decrease for men resulted from the decline in lung cancer death.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

About 40 million people depend to some degree on the fisheries, worth about $2.5 billion a year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

The United States has nearly and there are about 40,000 from NATO and other allied countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The rest - about 40 of them are students and workers in their twenties.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Thirty-four of the players considered came from those invited to a team orientation camp in Chicago and about 40 others from the National Team Development Program.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Statistics tell us that less than half,about 40 percent, will graduate high school.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

McChrystal had reportedly asked for about 40,000 additional U.S.troops for Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"We found that only 44 percent of the people who had been depressed received any kind of treatment, only about 40 percent received anti-depressants and only 20 percent received psychotherapy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

But there is a lot of uncertainty, and of course that is manifest in the share price which has lost about 40 percent of its value over the course of the past six or seven weeks."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Alexander Kuzin wants to know about Willis Conover's jazz programs that were heard for 40 years on VOA.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

While much of that wood is produced in American forests, The U.S.imports about $40 billion worth of timber each year.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

"Because if you are talking about a teaching force of over 35,000 and you are saying 40 percent of those ones are untrained and unqualified, then it is a big issue."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Several-dozen kilometers north of Docol, Malioun Osman,40,says she,too, is also alarmed about the large influx of people coming into Bulo Bacley, a camp that for nearly 20 years has housed people fleeing the civil war raging in the Somali capital,Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06