And many Republicans criticize the Fed chief himself a Republican for what they see as too much spending.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Not surprisingly, many workers say they are eating or drinking too much, and smoking more as they attempt to deal with money issues.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

But there are many other interesting, and much smaller,animals as well.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

The Thai economy is forecast to contract by as much as four percent this year, leaving as many as two million unemployed.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

LEDs produce as much light as incandescent light bulbs but consume only 10 percent of the electricity and last many times longer.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Now many have spent as much as a year's salary building structures of wood and tin.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

He estimates rates in his home state could go up by as little as 0.03 percent to as much as 15 percent, depending on how many customers a utility company has to spread the costs across.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

People in developing countries today are consuming nearly twice as much milk, more than three times as much meat and five times as many eggs as they did five decades ago, according to the FAO report.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

But he says this one stands out. "This is a very unusual attack in as much as it appears to be a successful attack upon the Revolutionary Guards at such a high level involving so many of the senior officers,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

"Today,the goal of modern apocalyptic terrorism is often to do as much disruption as possible and kill as many as possible in order to realy shake up the way in which societies operate and governments make decisions and make the pain so high that decisions are reassessed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

They look at you as if you're phony. I also think as an actor, you want to be able to play many parts, and if you have so much surgery done that you could only look a certain way, you're limiting the parts you're going to play."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"It has become increasingly clear that Tony Blair misled parliament on more than one occasion and I think that MPs were invited to make their own judgment on the merits of the case for war and they were entitled to do so on the truth and it looks very much as though that the truth was withheld from parliament and many MPs may well have made a different decision if they had had the full unvarnished truth,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"That will involve keeping countries happy with the division of labor as regards carbon trading, as regards how much they want to hold back their own industrial development, even though they say particularly many of the EU's new countries that they were poor for a long time, no different than the Chinese, that they have a right to develop their economy, that it is the rich countries in Europe that are more responsible for climate change than they are and they should get special treatment in any kind of EU position."

VOA: standard.2009.10.29