It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Historians say the Italian scientist and mathematician may not have been the first to get a good look at the moon and planets.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

But gardeners will not get a crop during the first spring after planting.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

In nineteen thirty, she became the first woman in the United States to get a pilot's license to fly a glider, which does not have an engine.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

So the country will be one of the first to get a vaccine - because of existing arrangements with drug companies.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

But obviously if he did not get the 50 percent in the first round then there has to be a second round."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Yet,health clinics can be difficult to get to in rural areas and people are more likely to go to a traditional healer first.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

"So I think they get more nervous. When I am climbing out the window to climb on a ledge, the first ones go, 'Whoa,whoa,whoa,wait!'

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

So,food aid was,first and foremost, a mechanism to get rid of those surpluses."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Audience members in Thursday's will get a chance to question Misters Brown, Cameron and Clegg, whose winning performance in Britain's first U.S.-styled televised debate last week gave his party an unprecedented boost in polls.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

So to be able to get a tree that, first of all,has very clear rings that we're able to visually match to each other and then go through and produce these long records was remarkable."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The first step uses a bit of influenza DNA to get the patient's immune system to begin fighting off the flu, and then the protection is given a "boost" some time later by the second step, which can be either another bit of DNA or a conventional flu vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21