He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The report says temperatures are estimated to increase by several degrees Celsius in the next one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

They believe the simian immunodeficiency virus,S.I.V., probably crossed from chimpanzees to humans in the last one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

After the concert he said: "She has a voice that one hears only once in a hundred years."

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

The Seattle P-I was one hundred forty-six years old -- the oldest daily newspaper in Washington state.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

A group of more than one hundred Englishmen had arrived two years earlier, in fifteen eighty-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The Battle of Solferino took place one hundred fifty years ago, in June of eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Mr.Stevens says a one hundred percent increase in fish farming over ten years is necessary to keep providing for people at the current level.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

In the new study, scientists examined more than one hundred years of ocean temperature records.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

In the last two years, more than one hundred forty countries have signed a United Nations treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The mosaic has been active in East Africa for about one hundred years.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

The committee noted that the number of days spent by passengers on ships in the area has increased by one hundred fifty percent in the last fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Saint Irenaeus Parish is celebrating one hundred one years in existence.

VOA: special.2009.12.21