The Council of Graduate Schools says this followed an increase of six percent last year and nine percent the year before that.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

This week,President Barack Obama went before Congress and the nation to better explain his health care proposals.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

This is because parents give resources,education and medical care to their boys before giving them to girls.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Only Native Americans,cowboys, and explorers entered this area before the park was established in nineteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

This metal form is chemically treated before being covered with ink and then pressed onto paper.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

We were over the hill before this insane movement could be discovered and stopped.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Lincoln said to the old man: "When I think of the sacrifices of life still to be offered, and the hearts and homes to be made lonely before this terrible war is over, my heart is like lead.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

But never before like this. Such Tweet Sorrow, the newest version of Romeo and Juliet, is 'tweeted' online by six actors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

He points out that U.S.soldiers, before this generation, were fighting Asians - Japanese in World War II, then Koreans and Vietnamese.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

The recount,ordered by the Election Complaints Commission, began this week and comes before the full,election results have been announced.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"We will rebuild this economy stronger than before,and at its heart will be three powerful words: Made In America."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

But if we are able to anticipate this danger, then the euro and Europe will be stronger than before."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"And,they have no alternatives before them. This makes them especially vulnerable to exploitation and violence as they search for food and shelter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04