Diane Keaton plays just such a mother, a single mom named Daphne, in the two thousand seven film "Because I Said So."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

One team offered him a thirty thousand dollar gift just to sign a contract agreement.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Luke Ravenstahl was just twenty-seven when he won a special election in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - NATO has struggled,at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of twenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

"Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that in the Philippines, if we in a year can be reaching just five thousand farmers and their fields can be increasing the yield by half a ton per hectare, we could be looking at profitabilities for those farmers in the range of half a million dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28