In the meantime, the U.S.federal deficit exceeded $1 trillion last year, and is projected to do so again this year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

It would be in addition to a military aid program for Pakistan which has averaged about $1 billion a year since 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Japan kills about 1,000 humpback and minke whales each year in the Southern Ocean as part of what it calls genuine scientific research.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

In their first year alone, workers in two little factories hand-rolled more than 1 million cigars.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The disease - in all its forms - struck 1.5 million Americans last year,killing 560,000.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The report,Promoting Development, Saving the Planet,said that up to $1 trillion a year would be needed to deal with issues of climate change in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

In Thailand,as many as 1.4 million visitors arrived seeking medical care in 2007, the most recent year numbers are available up from half a million in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

After rising steadily for more than a year, the index of leading economic indicators actually slipped by .1 percent in April, according to a private research group.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

The United States has brought Last year German industrial group Siemens agreed to pay just over $1.3 billion to settle corruption probes in the United States and Germany.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

"The rain in Burkina Faso during one year represents 1,200 millimeters,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

American casualties in the nine-year Afghan conflict surpass 1,000.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

The new policy announcement comes a day before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Mexico to discuss efforts to confront drug-related violence, which has killed more than 1,000 people in Mexico this year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

But an even more astounding result for us from this survey, which encompassed 1,000 adults a random telephone survey in January of this year, was that over 800 of the respondents - that's over four out of five people - say they are still buying green products, still buying green products in a very severe recession."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30