South Africa has also spent nearly two billion dollars to build five new stadiums, including one in the tourist center of Durban.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

For example, nearly two thousand nurses left the Caribbean between two thousand two and two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Next year's research and development budget calls for spending nearly two billion dollars on new space technologies.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The solar-powered irrigation systems produced an average of nearly two metric tons of vegetables per month.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The International Air Transport Association estimated the cost to airlines at nearly two billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The deepest part of the mine is nearly two thousand five hundred meters below ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles studied nearly two thousand women.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

The government is spending nearly two billion dollars on security training and equipment.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Seafood is worth nearly two and a half billion dollars to the state.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Around fifteen thousand delegates and observers from nearly two hundred countries are there.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

That was an increase of nearly two million from nineteen ninety-nine.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Nearly two-thirds were in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Nearly two weeks ago, Pakistan's military launched an offensive in the South Waziristan tribal region against Pakistani Taliban militants based there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Leyda Lopez came to Sunday's rally with her mother who entered the country illegally from Equador nearly two decades ago.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Friday marks the first time in nearly two years that North Korean officials have set foot in South Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

(SAYING...) Nearly two-thirds of those polled said women and minorities in STEM careers were under-represented in their companies or institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

In the nearly two decades since the Cairo conference, at least 17 countries have liberalized their abortion laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

In trading,Japanese stocks were up nearly two percent, while markets in Hong Kong, South Korea,and Australia were up about half a percent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Nearly two million eligible voters can choose a new president with a five-year mandate, as well as mayors and councilors of major towns.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

It says diarrhea-related diseases kill nearly two million people and almost one million die from malaria.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Carstairs also appealed to Afghanistan's government to reinstate Malalai Joya, who was suspended from parliament nearly two years ago for insulting the country's warlords.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

And nearly two-thirds of them said they wanted the forces brought home as soon as possible.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Speaking by telephone, district police chief Usman Anwar told VOA his men watched activities of the suspects for nearly two days before arresting them.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Somalia,which has been plagued by civil war for nearly two decades, has Africa's third largest IDP population after Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

At least 10 people were killed and nearly two dozen wounded last Sunday after fighting between al-Shabab and AU peacekeepers broke out around the seaport.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Mr.Orban,47,told parliament that he realizes he takes over a country mired in political tensions and struggling to overcome its deepest recession in nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22