In five of them, the rate at which fish are being taken out of the sea has dropped to a level that should let the populations recover.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

"It will continue to be soft, given the fact the rate at which there is price increase,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

With the U.S.unemployment rate at 9.7 percent, the president said he hopes Congress will soon approve incentives for small businesses to add workers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

"We have detected certainly an increase in the past couple of weeks of the rate at which people are being allowed to return home,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday decided to leave this interest rate at nearly zero percent.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

New York had the lowest rate, at seventy-nine percent of the adults observed at Grand Central Station and Penn Station.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

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

The center says September Arctic sea ice is decreasing at a rate of more than eleven percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

The ILO notes that child labor is decreasing worldwide, but at a much slower rate than four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

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

They found that people who spend months in space lose bone strength at a faster rate than experts had thought.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

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

Minority children, especially Hispanics, are increasing at a fast rate while the United States has fewer white children.

VOA: special.2010.03.20