The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate of one percent in April,May and June.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

One chief said the suicide rate for young Native American men in his state was twelve times the national average.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

At that rate,officials estimate that more than one hundred thousand people will be able to climb to the top each year.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

During this period, hair grows at a rate of about three tenths millimeters a day, or one centimeter a month.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

"At the rate we're going,we are expected to spend one-fifth of our economy on health care within a decade.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

One of the U.N.Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the under-five death rate by two-thirds by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The researchers said tPA improved the chances of a successful result by thirty-one percent and produced no change in the death rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Push hard and fast. Aim for a rate of about one hundred compressions each minute.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

The rate is one in every one thousand two hundred births at age twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

He expects the exchange rate against the dollar to reach one-to-one within a year.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

The gel reduced the rate of infection of herpes simplex-two by fifty-one percent.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Minnesota and Utah had the lowest rate twenty-three point one percent.

VOA: special.2009.07.21