Shanahan says the money will have to be found. "They are quite scary figures for people who are not used to dealing with these numbers,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Officials also still not have released any figures for voter turnout, which observers predict may be as low as 10 percent in areas where the Taliban insurgency is active.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

But this is no reason for complacency. Our figures for 2009 and 2010 will decide whether Europe meets its target of official development of 0.56 percent of gross national income by 2010."

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

He says he has worn it for two days and figures it must be working because he has not come down with the flu.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

But the latest figures show shoppers made up for it before and after the storm.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

It's cost our first quarter figures to be below what we have budgeted for."

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

Since 1979, every McDonald's "Happy Meal" for children has included an enticing toy along with the food, from Star Wars action figures to Hello Kitty watches.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Some 100,000 U.S.and NATO troops are currently in Afghanistan, but increasingly casualty figures and concerns about a growing Taliban threat and an ineffective and corrupt Afghan government have led to diminishing public support for the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Democrats controlling both committees will use as a basis revised figures released last week by the Congressional Budget Office that project a more than $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009,substantially more than the Obama administration's initial estimate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"Obviously there is a bit of a spread between those two figures and it suggests the possibility of some political problems for the president if he should not take the military recommendation and that difference gets to be a big issue,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09