The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Forty-four point four percent of all children between the ages of ten and seventeen years were obese or overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

These lines,or circles,are parallel -- meaning that they are equally distant from each other at any point around the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The absolute number of child deaths declined to an estimated eight-point-eight million from twelve-point-five million in nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Getting a grade like a B-plus or a C-minus adds or subtracts a few tenths of a point.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

"In addition to the deaths, there's about two-point-five billion and I want to emphasize, about two-point-five billion cases of diarrhea among children every year."

VOA: special.2009.11.17

The association for college admission counseling recently found a thirty-point increase with Kaplan and other programs.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Many minerals in the asbestos family can absorb light with a wavelength measuring two-point three micrometers.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Scientists found the tropicalis genome contains more than one-point-seven-billion chemical bases along ten pairs of chromosomes.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

His three-point, lap and shoulder seat belt first appeared on cars in Europe fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

For example, the TMR patients completed elbow and wrist movements in an average of one-point-two-nine seconds.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Richard Fry says their job-holding rate is almost at the lowest point in nearly fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Last month,the jobless rate increased by two-tenths of a percent to nine point eight percent.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

It says H.I.V.-related deaths appear to have reached their highest point in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.12.02