In fact,Mississippi has had the highest rate of obese adults in each of the past five years.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Friday that twenty-five thousand barrelswere captured in the past twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

One sign is that the Standard & Poor's list of five hundred stocks has risen more than twenty-five percent in the past five weeks.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Sixty-five presidential historians judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten qualities of leadership.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

They found a drop of more than thirty-five percent worldwide in the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Experts say Aquarius will gather as much information about sea surface salinity as has been collected by ships over the past one hundred twenty-five years.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

For the past five years, UNICEF and the W.H.O.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

For the past five weeks,British forces have been clearing the territory between Lashkar Gah and Girishk in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Despite a doubling of its gross domestic product in the past five years, Sri Lanka still requires foreign aid and loans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The United States,for example said it has granted Sudan $6 billion in the past five years.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Civil rights groups say more than five million people are denied the right to vote in the United States because of past felony convictions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

French and Spanish authorities have arrested five other ETA leaders during the past two years.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Over the past five months we have averaged losing 667,000 jobs (per month)."

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"I was stuck in Pakistan for the past five or six days.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Mahecic says in the past five days, arrived in Yemen after crossing the Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa, a region beset by conflict, political instability, famine and drought.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01