He believed that much of what was being said and done in Ohio was close to the crime of treason.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

In Paris, Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates, Julia Gardner, whose family was from Boston, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

At the close of the Group of 20 Summit in Toronto,Canada, the president noted moves in Europe to cut government spending.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

In April,after the first cases in the United States, officials told schools to close at the first sign of an H1N1 outbreak.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

But the closeness of their friendship might be seen best in a story told by one of Roosevelt's close advisers, Harry Hopkins.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

Land protests last year forced the company to close its factory in the Indian state of West Bengal.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

It was amended. The new bill would simply close all places in the District of Columbia where slaves were bought and sold.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The La Brea insects give scientists a close look at the history of insects in southern California.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

"In the U.S.,for instance, some researchers have projected that there may be a shortage of close to a million nurses by two thousand twenty."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

They can also cause them. In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

To safely capture up-close film footage of tornadoes, some project participants traveled in a seven-ton, armored tornado intercept vehicle directly into tornadoes as they formed.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

And he says five of the planetary candidates are both close to the size of Earth and orbit in the habitable area of their parent stars.

VOA: special.2011.02.09