The study found that those who received lower doses of steroids by mouth spent less time in the hospital.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Ila Lewis and other jewelry makers say combining the materials into a finished piece generally takes less time than the design process.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Still,he says he worries that more people will avoid cooperating with the police, and that officers will have less time to fight more serious crimes.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

People who bully spend less time on productive work.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

On May fifteenth, just seventeen days after leaving New York, Captain Creesy wrote this in the Flying Cloud's log: "We have passed the Equator in two days less time than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

The less time they cook,the better.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

As for cost,Dr.Miller says patients with a heart pump spend less time in a hospital and have lower hospital costs than patients with severe heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

In the study,patients who received lower doses of steroids by mouth spent less time in the hospital, and their risk of side effects such as glaucoma, high blood pressure and edema, or swelling in the legs, was reduced.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

She means young people who are more interested in technology and less interested in working all the time on the farm.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

But more than half of all children will be minorities in less than half that time.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Police in India announce such arrests from time to time, but convictions of such suspects are less frequent.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

"It is reasonable to hope that there will be less irregularities this time for several reasons,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Total time from takeoff to delivering the patients to Bagram: less than two hours.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

There are also images of him as he approached middle age in the 1990's a time he gained the blessing of no less a moral authority than Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The Kremlin leader says expenditures will exceed revenues for the first time in ten years, creating a budget deficit of no less than seven percent of the country's gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

On Friday,the U.S.special envoy to Afghanistan,Richard Holbrooke,said he believes there will be less fraud this time around because only two candidates will be on the ballot and more international teams will be in place to monitor.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"It should really serve,I think, as a stimulus to us to find ways to recapture the partnership so we can join forces and fight together against the threats and challenges of the 21st century that are no less dangerous than Hitler was in his time."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14