The order of the list is based on how corrupt a country's government is considered by a number of international organizations.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

And how that works is, as your number increases, the diameter gets smaller and smaller."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The army has not provided evidence of the high number of militants killed, nor have officials attempted to project how many civilians have died in the operation.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

But news reports indicate no one knows how many corpses remain in the streets, how many have been burned or the number of those buried in private by their families.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

"They are so complicated that if you tried to estimate how many ways you can make a snowflake, you get a huge number not just billions or trillions, but bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Recent polls give President Obama an approval rating of between 58 and 64 percent, and some experts believe that number could rise depending on how the public reacts at the end of his overseas trip next week.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"We also looked at the part of the brain called the hippocampus which is very important for forming the sort of memories we make everyday,you know, when you have to remember a pin number or you have to remember how to get somewhere, and the hippocampus, if it's a good size that means you are less likely to develop Alzheimer's,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30