Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

I could tell from the surrounding mountains that we were on the bottom of a long dead sea.

VOA: special.2011.07.23

He examined fossilized remains in a piece of gypsum found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

"Now if you look at that bottom picture on your pages, you'll see that you can measure the length and the width of that spatter droplet,right?

VOA: special.2010.05.05

A piece of sod has grass on the top and soil on the bottom.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

It sits flat on the ground with the bottom open to the earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The shark then bleeds to death on the bottom of the ocean.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

'We're going to have to look at the car." "I have Toyota on standby to help us with our investigation, and we definitely want to get to the bottom of it."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"Our margins are really thin, in terms of our bottom line, and any additional costs have to be absorbed by the farmer because we can't pass on those costs to consumers directly,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

But could find none. "Over time oil does dissipate and can get broken down from bacteria and other organisms in the water, but still they are putting certain dispersants on the oil that makes it sink down to the bottom."

VOA: standard.2010.05.09