Everyone pays a percentage of their salary for health insurance, and that amount is generally matched by the employer.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

That is the amount of time it took Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal to capture a historic image on film.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide pollution that we produce as a result of our activities.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

If your combination of numbers is chosen, you win a huge amount of money often in the millions.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

She is offering a large amount of money to anyone who can return the letter to her.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

They cannot harm themselves because the amount of painkiller in the pump is carefully measured and limited.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

The result is a five to twenty percent drop in the amount of oxygen in the blood.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

"People are more focused on communicable diseases and not paying enough attention to the amount of disability there is from mental health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

A BTU is the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of about one-half kilogram of a substance by one degree Fahrenheit.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

It measures the amount of air Arick is able to push out of his lungs.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Losing one's sense of humor is another sign of an unhealthy amount of stress.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

At about nineteen-thousand meters, the air is so thin and the amount of oxygen so small that a person needs a lot of special equipment to survive.

VOA: special.2011.04.06