"If children were exclusively breastfed for six months, continued to breastfeed up to two years, with appropriate additional food from six months onwards, we could save 1.5 million children under five years of age out the 8.8 million that we estimate to die currently every year."

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Almost one in four unemployed workers is experiencing an unemployment spell of six months or longer, the highest level in over 25 years,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"Of course,the residents of southern Israel who were living in bomb shelters for months,and even years, have a right to live also in safety and dignity,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Others last for months or even years. There is no clear way of predicting at the present time how long this activity might go on for."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Members of this community say they're determined to show the same resolve over the coming months as they did 20 years ago when they moved here to start a new life.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

The non-profit organization "Hospital Audiences," which provides hospital patients access to the arts, organized the 3-day escape for the wounded warriors, many of whom will spend between nine months and two years at Walter Reed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

French general Stephane Abrial takes over as supreme allied commander in Norfolk,Virginia, in the United States, just months after President Nicolas Sarkozy of France announced his country would rejoin the NATO military command more than 40 years after leaving it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30