The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

It reported a profit of about six billion dollars in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

The growth rate in the first three months of this year was nearly twelve percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Seven incidents were reported there in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The risks were highest in the first three years.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Michael Johnston is twenty-seven. He was first deployed to Iraq in two thousand three at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

In nineteen seventy-three, Ashe was the first black player to be invited to compete in the South African Open.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

On Thursday JPMorgan Chase reported more than two billion dollars in profit for the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

After high school, the Cleveland Cavaliers chose LeBron James with the first pick in the two thousand three National Basketball Association draft.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

In eighteen forty-eight, three hundred women and men gathered in Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The prize in economic sciences has gone to sixty-three men since it was first awarded forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

She was the first female golfer to score lower than three hundred in a seventy-two hole tournament.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Researchers at Mohammed the First University in Oujda,Morocco, tested the Waterboxx for three years in the Sahara.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

In nineteen fifty-three, the first lady persuaded Congress to declare a National Teacher Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Last month, the WorldFirst Formula Three racing car was set to run in its first competitive race at the Formula Three Championship Final at Brands Hatch.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was "back in the black with its first profit in three years."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

In nineteen eighty-three she became the first female composer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

In nineteen sixty-three, Benny returned to Broadway for the first time since nineteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Another awards show, the American Music Awards, was first broadcast in nineteen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

It is also no accident that this play about a Scottish king was written a few years after James the First became King of England in sixteen-oh-three.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Public viewings of the first Zeiss planetarium projector began in nineteen twenty-three.

VOA: special.2010.09.29