Let us begin the Olympics,thank you." About one thousand competitors from twenty-six states and Canada took part in the event.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Twenty feet -- that's six meters. Other suggestions include putting more distance between you and the device and using good lighting.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

They also include workers in health care and emergency services, and people between six months and twenty-four years of age.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

In the Nivkh language of Siberia, each number can be said twenty-six different ways based on the object being counted.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

But the Lakers' Kobe Bryant scored twenty-six points in game six to force a game seven in Los Angeles last Thursday.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

The site was launched to the public last September by a start-up company led by its twenty-six year old founder.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

During one week in nineteen forty-eight, poisonous air in a nearby town killed twenty people and sickened six thousand others.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

In two thousand six, the United States had lower scores in mathematics than twenty-three of the other twenty-nine OECD countries.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Over twenty months, he spent almost six thousand hours searching in a protected area in the Simbu Province of Papua New Guinea.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

As of Tuesday, seventy-three countries had reported more than twenty-six thousand cases of the new H1N1 flu virus.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

And millions of Americans listened to the boxing match in nineteen twenty-six between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney.

VOA: special.2010.12.30

Reporter Pete Demetriou from KNX Newsradio in Los Angeles also spoke to another man who has lived in the area for twenty-six years.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

This park was established in nineteen twenty-six in an effort to protect the wildlife of South Africa.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Babe Ruth loved children. In nineteen twenty-six, a child named Johnny Sylvester lay in a hospital bed.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In nineteen twenty-nine, six hundred fifty-nine banks with total holdings of two-hundred-million dollars went out of business.

VOA: special.2011.02.24

The S & P Five Hundred index gained over twenty percent its largest increase in six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

As early as nineteen thirty-six, he had a weekly radio audience of about twenty million people.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Last year,more than six hundred twenty thousand, or three and a half percent, were international students.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The College Board says the average tuition at a private college was about twenty-six thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

This year about four hundred Boy Scouts from twenty-six other countries also attended the National Jamboree.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

He says twenty volunteers worked for six weekends to turn the grassy land into a farm.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

A government-owned group of companies,Dubai World, has been seeking to restructure twenty-six billion dollars of debt.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Preterm birth rates in the United States have increased thirty-six percent in the last twenty-five years.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Mules were faster. For example, in eighteen fifty-seven a stagecoach pulled by six mules took twenty to twenty-five days to travel from Independence,Missouri,to Santa Fe.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

On July thirty-first, the ship traveled six hundred and one kilometers in only twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2009.12.23