They did not get much education. And they rarely traveled far by themselves.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

"And who's the better shot in the family?" "Oh my son,by far."

VOA: special.2009.11.23

"And in many cases these courses went too far, I would say, towards the fluffy treatment of serious material, and students could satisfy their requirement by taking such courses."

VOA: special.2009.10.22

So far,60 people have died and almost 4,000 villagers have been infected by what has been identified as seasonal flu.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

"The implications are obvious. The developing world has,by far, the largest pool of people at risk for severe and fatal H1N1 infections."

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

Critics, including opposition politicians and rights groups, say it is tinged with the kind of nationalist sentiment spearheaded by France's far-right National Front party.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

He says the tuberculosis epidemic is far from over and is being aggravated by multi-drug resistant TB and its even more dangerous form, extensively drug-resistant TB.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The ban was proposed by President Kaczynski's far-right Law and Justice party.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Take Love Easy is by far her most adventurous album to date, as she alternates between pages from the Great American Songbook and time-tested rock tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, John Boehner of Ohio, said the initiatives announced by the White House do not go far enough and what is really needed is a set of new economic policies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

He said it would take longer to convince Afghans that the insurgency is going to fail, because they have been disappointed by the international military effort so far and because many view their government as inconsequential or corrupt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"So far,we have had a constructive conversation and my hope is that by the time the chairman and I meet on Wednesday that we have made sufficient progress and we can start actually seeing a structure that would be in place."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Republicans also link potential costs with what they say is the failure so far of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the $787 billion stimulus plan approved by Congress to speed up economic recovery, an assertion the president and Democrats reject.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Perhaps most importantly, there is the clash between world views, where on the one hand, there is the democratic and progressive trend embodied in the venerable and still extant tradition of Arab liberalism, and on the other hand,the bloody and violent current represented by far too many of the region's seminal figures."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"What I would like for the country and everybody to know is that with the age of the computer, it takes time for us to try to keep up with the computer but if some people would start writing again, and sending their bills by mail, maybe it could ease a little of the burden as far as the financial difficulties that we are in."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13