About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

They are dangerous to breathe. And they are a big fire danger, causing many injuries and deaths each year.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Each year, the John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington honors performers for their lifetime of work.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

About twenty thousand ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year on their way to the Suez Canal.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

But Michael O'Donnell says the number of serious bird strike incidents has remained at or below two hundred each year.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

At that rate,officials estimate that more than one hundred thousand people will be able to climb to the top each year.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Each year an estimated two hundred fifty thousand to half a million children go blind from vitamin A deficiency.

VOA: special.2011.03.01

More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Each year,the Afghan Institute of Learning serves about three hundred fifty thousand women and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

Now they are stars in the sky, so they meet each other in lunar months,seventh in July, each year once.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Many people visit the city each year to see the burial place of one very unusual man in Colma's Woodlawn Cemetery.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Each year on that day the National Education Association calls for every child and every community in America to celebrate reading.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Each year thousands of people visit the museum and go on board the submarine that made history -- the U.S.S.Nautilus.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

There are about one thousand new cases of fistula each year in Kenya and as many as one hundred thousand worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Asthma affects more than seven million children each year and is considered one of the leading childhood illnesses.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Each year on November tenth, a ceremony is held there to remember the crew members of the Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Under a nineteen eighty-six law, presidents are supposed to report their national security goals to Congress each year.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

The new law will reduce the most that borrowers must repay each year from fifteen percent of their income to ten percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.15