In the United States, cases of suspected influenza are at higher numbers than usual this early in the flu season.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The fighting died down at the end of the day, and Jackson's men moved back to their positions on higher ground.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

It does not mean that the severity of the situation has increased or that people are getting seriously sick at higher numbers or higher rates than they are right now."

VOA: special.2009.06.10

"In simple terms, things such as type two diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases of a variety of types, and lung diseases and so on, are all found at higher than the comparison rates within the country, in many of these countries with indigenous populations."

VOA: special.2009.07.20

So therefore, these kids are at higher risk for the development of plaque in their arteries as time goes by."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"In the fair-trade system the farmergets a higher advance price and at the end of the year they also get bonus payments."

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

For patients at the higher end of the severity,the medications had a very potent effect."

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

Greek debt,now estimated at 13 percent of its gross domestic output, is more than four times higher than the limit imposed by the European Union.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Some recent surveys show the president's overall approval rating at or just above 50 percent a far cry from higher numbers in the early days of his administration.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

One man appreciates cheap domestic gasoline, sold at pennies per liter, but adds "on the other hand, if the price of gasoline were higher, maybe there would be more funds for roads and other projects."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13