But never before has the government used hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue companies that made risky investments.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

But there are hundreds of barns in the Midwest and other parts of the country that are different.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

But as early as the middle seventeen hundreds, Cape May began to be known as a place to visit in the summer.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

But it was also a news event as hundreds of thousands of young people flooded into the area.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

But the boat soon sank. Hundreds of passengers struggled to hold on to the floating wreckage.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

But it tells a great deal about social and political tensions during the late eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

But in the eighteen hundreds the United States government forced them to leave their homes.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

But each weed plant can produce tens or even hundreds of thousands of seeds.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

Brown ran for Congress twice in the early nineteen hundreds but lost both times.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

But people still buy hundreds of thousands of copies of them each year.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Some proverbs are hundreds of years old, but they are still used today.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But it began to appear in American newspapers in the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

But in the middle eighteen hundreds she was a famous woman.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

But soon I saw hundreds of the green warriors.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

But it still killed hundreds of people.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

It's time to get it off the market." But doctors still prescribe Avandia to hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

But Punjab Province is the political stronghold of Sharif's party and hundreds of demonstrators soon faced off against the police.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

But it became increasingly difficult to continue the crackdown as the protests grew to hundreds of thousands of people.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

But residents say hundreds of Ethiopian troops have poured into the eastern part of town to set up military bases.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

But his CNDP rebels have displaced hundreds of thousands in Congo, and the Congolese government has filed a formal request for extradition.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

But in June,the president of Somalia's transitional federal government, Sharif Sheik Ahmed, said hundreds had arrived in the country to support al-Shabab.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

But this is the village of Tecun Uman, on the Guatemalan border with Mexico, and those involved are hundreds of kilometers from home.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

But when patients live in a remote community hundreds of kilometers from the specialists they need, that kind of therapy may not be possible.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

But they expect the arrival of hundreds, and eventually thousands, of the vehicles in Afghanistan will help reverse the trend of U.S.casualties, and will enable the troops to travel safely throughout the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

A major military offensive in South Waziristan is underway and has killed hundreds of Taliban fighters but has not been able to capture or kill Hakimullah Mehsud or any of his key deputies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

China's rapid economic growth has pulled millions of the country's residents out of poverty, but a new report says the environmental impacts of this progress is threatening the health of hundreds of millions more.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07