On May third, the Cumberland River measured almost sixteen meters, more than three and a half meters above flood stage.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

But to really experience this ocean world, you can enter a tunnel and watch the fish swimming above you.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

In warmer climates, snow is known to fall in areas over four thousand nine hundred meters above sea level.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Almost twenty-five years later, Pope Paul the Third asked Michelangelo to paint the wall of the Sistine Chapel above the altar.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

If several of these conditions are present at the same time, a person's body temperature may rise above safe levels.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

The agreement sets targets to prevent the Earth's average temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Cecil B.DeMille was among the very few filmmakers in Hollywood whose name appeared above the title of his movie.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

These studies must consider wildlife activity up to about three thousand meters above an airport and eight kilometers around it.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

All agreed that global temperatures should not rise by more than an average of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

As he later described it, the plane was not much more than half a kilometer above the trees.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

In about the year seven hundred fifty, the early Pueblo people began building square structures of large connected rooms,or pueblos, above ground.

VOA: special.2011.03.30

On a passenger cruise ship, fresh air is available on decks and in other places above sea level.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

An old Russian military satellite and a United States communications satellite crashed into each other eight hundred kilometers above Siberia in Russia.

VOA: special.2009.04.01