But by nineteen seventy-nine, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine had become an old ship.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

The Latvian economy is expected to be hit even harder,shrinking 13.1 percent in 2009, while Ireland's economy is expected to shrink by nine percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

One day in October of eighteen fifty-nine, Americans were shocked by news of an attack led by John Brown.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

But counting the world's third largest population -- about three hundred nine million by current estimates -- is no easy job.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

He was eighty-nine years old. At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

But the song became a lasting hit with a version recorded in nineteen fifty-nine by the Kingston Trio.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The group says the cremation rate is expected to increase to almost fifty-nine percent by two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

By the age of nine, he had taught himself to play the harmonica and had built a radio.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

For nine years this outdoor event organized by the Library of Congress has brought readers, writers and illustrators to the nation's capital.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

That was a good joke on me. By jingo, I'll bet I did jump six and nine-tenths inches.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

He was influenced at the age of nine by a painting in his school of the highest mountains on the seven continents.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Another proposal would add two years to the full retirement age for Social Security -- raising it to sixty-nine by about twenty seventy-five.

VOA: special.2010.11.19

The main agreement of the system, the Antarctic Treaty, was signed by twelve countries in nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The nineteen fifty-nine album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was the first jazz album to sell more than one million copies.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

At least twenty-nine people were killed in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky, either by floodwaters or tornadoes.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Half of the groups expect giving to drop this year by more than nine percent.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Women who used the tenofovir gel reduced their risk of HIV infection by thirty-nine percent.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Last month,the jobless rate increased by two-tenths of a percent to nine point eight percent.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

The money will help to support projects approved by the government nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

By eighteen fifty-four,nine thousand negroes from the United States had been sent to Liberia.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The parents answered questions by telephone at nine months and again at four years.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

By this year,nine out of ten were heading to Asian markets without interference.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The great Yukon gold rush was over by the end of eighteen ninety-nine.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

one of many hits by The Band from nineteen sixty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.07.09