Breathing in two hundred parts per million of carbon monoxide will cause the first signs of poisoning.

VOA: special.2011.01.25

"A country such as Bangladesh or India, they average less than eight new implants per million.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Twelve thousand parts per million of the gas will cause death in one to three minutes.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

But the Consumer Product Safety Commission has just lowered the limit to ninety parts per million.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Until this past month, the safety standard for consumer paints was six hundred parts per million.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

It found that the majority of new enamel paints from China, India and Malaysia contained lead at levels of at least five thousand parts per million.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

In the United States, we average seven hundred fifty-two new implants per million."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Carbon monoxide is measured in parts per million in a normal atmosphere.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

"Most of the paint brands that we looked at had at least one sample that was above ten thousand parts per million, which is over a hundred times the current U.S.standard."

VOA: special.2009.08.31

"These targets are set for 2015 and are to achieve at least 90 percent measles vaccination coverage nationally and 80 percent coverage in every district, reduce measles cases to less than five per million population, reduce measles mortality by U.N.health agencies have made huge strides in reducing the number of children dying from measles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

This compares with about sixteen million hectares per year during the nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

The International Energy Agency has predicted a potential seven million barrel per day gap between supply and demand by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"The bad news is that we still have 1.8-million deaths per year from tuberculosis.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

On new taxes, House lawmakers have proposed a 5.4 percent surtax on individuals earning more than $500,000 per year and families with incomes exceeding $1 million,along with with new fees for insurance companies,drug-makers, medical device manufacturers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that in the Philippines, if we in a year can be reaching just five thousand farmers and their fields can be increasing the yield by half a ton per hectare, we could be looking at profitabilities for those farmers in the range of half a million dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05