He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

On monetary policy, Roosevelt and the Congress decided that the dollar should no longer be tied to the price of gold.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

They also reported sleeping longer on school nights and making fewer tiredness-related visits to the school health center.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

That can have a big effect on their behavior, helping them work harder and longer in therapy sessions.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Those with ring fingers longer than index fingers did better on the math part of a standardized test than the reading part.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

During an on-crop year, growers often treat the fruit so it can stay on the tree longer.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons of several animals that no longer existed on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

She says she and Heather Hansen have heard from readers who no longer think of the places they visit as pictures on postcards that are frozen in time.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

As generals on both sides learned, this method no longer worked.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

And he said it was right for the United States to pay the debts of Texas, because that state no longer could collect taxes on trade as an independent country.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Men,women and children are no longer shackled, put on the auction block and sold like prize cattle to the highest bidder.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

I count on the reputation of our purveyors that we have known, longer than I have been alive.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

"In the longer run you can only curb piracy if you address the root causes on land.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Critics say that e-mails and other information sent through cloud providers are no longer private anyway, just by virtue of being on the web.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

And the questions keep coming - sometimes going on for longer than the presentation itself.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04