Yet the study found that having a friend who is lonely can add about seventeen days a year of loneliness.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

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

The World Health Organization estimates that cardiovascular disease killed seventeen and a half million people in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

By nineteen twenty, the United States national income was greater than the combined incomes of Britain,France,Germany,Japan,Canada, and seventeen smaller countries.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

In eighteen sixty, at the age of seventeen, Mary began classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The one hundred seventeen men,women and children were not the first white people to try to live on the island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Last week,W.W.E.officials reported the company earned more than one hundred seventeen million dollars in the fourth financial period of last year.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

The United States had refused to recognize the government in Moscow after the Bolsheviks took control in nineteen seventeen.

VOA: special.2011.04.28

He says if money is available, Ares Five could be ready for a test flight by two thousand seventeen.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Historians say a trial in the colony of New York in seventeen thirty-five went a long way toward establishing this freedom.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The study found that families in seventeen million households had difficulty getting enough food at times during the year.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

And they say band leader Rivers Cuomo still writes fresh and funny songs seventeen years after the band started.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

But they have been reported to move in other directions and as fast as one hundred seventeen kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

"American exports grew almost seventeen percent over the first four months of this year, compared to the same period last year.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

In August,American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised more than seventeen million dollars to fight sexual violence in the D.R.C.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

His early works were influenced by composers of the classical period of the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

A different group, the National Opinion Research Center, recently found that seventeen percent of Americans do not identify with any faith.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

In the late seventeen hundreds, many events that took place in Philadelphia gave birth to the American Revolution and independence.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

In the seventeen hundreds, the land on which the Harborplace development was built served as a trade center for Baltimore.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

For example,the Web site petswelcome.com lists more than seventeen thousand pet friendly hotels,campgrounds and beaches in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

They found it easy to settle in a country that, until seventeen seventy-six, was a collection of British colonies.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Politics and public policy issues were avoided until the New England Courant was published in Boston in seventeen twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

About five thousand men and women from more than eighty countries will compete for seventeen days at the Vancouver Olympics.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

An astronaut who does work outside the space shuttle usually is wearing more than seventeen pieces of protective equipment.

VOA: special.2011.04.06