At the start of this year there were two hundred thirteen thousand cases of leprosy reported in one hundred twenty-one countries.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

"One of the things the World Bank measured was how long it takes to start a business.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided more than one million dollars to start the program.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The Department gave one hundred thousand dollars to each of the accepted teams to start their projects.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Nowadays the average company in the Middle East takes twenty-one days to start a business.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The new agreement replaces the nineteen ninety-one Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START-One.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

The fund may reach one trillion dollars in financing, but start with half that.

VOA: special.2009.02.13

I asked one of the workers if he could start the engines.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

At the start, one team established itself as the league's best.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

"You're a cowboy! So start acting like one!"

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Let us start with the number one.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

The two sides were hoping to get a new treaty in place by December 5 the date of START-One's expiration.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Last July President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev,agreed to work on a follow-on treaty to START-One.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

More than 1,000 pages long, START-1 is one of the most complex treaties in history, dealing with reducing nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08