Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

However,I noticed several of them carried devices that looked very much like rifles.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

I also worked with a group of lay Buddhists who like Dewey's work very much because it is very comfortable with some of the ideas of Mahayana Buddhism."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

He looks very much like a powerful ruler.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

"And also spices like turmeric, which is used in India very much, but also along with North African Countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Like other southern states, Virginia was a place where blacks and whites lived together but very much apart.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

He's trying to play a sort of moderate, right of the center candidate very much like Komorowksi."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

His parents were concerned. "To say the least, they didn't like it very much."

VOA: standard.2010.04.20