It meant that people would not have to climb many steps to reach the upper floors of tall buildings.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Tucker used more than four hundred fifty thousand Legos to make his version which is more than five meters tall.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Farmers rarely planted trees or tall crops around the buildings, so there would be no barrier to the airflow.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

It stood four to six meters tall, was about twelve meters long, and weighed up to seven tons.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

The report says up to one billion birds die each year from flying into objects like power lines, windows and tall buildings.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

The huge Saturn rocket, as tall as a thirty-six-floor building, was the heaviest thing ever to leave Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The last three finalists each had fifty minutes to create a tall structure to hold an egg even when shaken with earthquake force.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat decided in nineteen ninety-six to include the height of the spires of the Petronas Towers.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

The group is supported by building designers and experts connected to the operation of tall buildings.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

A common design is a tall box with several shelves inside to hold the food.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

They count down the final seconds to midnight as they watch a brightly lit ball slide down a pole on top of a tall building.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

It can grow up to four meters tall. With about one and one-half meters of rainfall each year, plants and trees never stop growing in the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

They are tall and thin, and seem to grow from the canyon floor.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The Council explains on its Web site that early tall buildings were generally measured from the ground floor to the top of the building, not including flagpoles.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

It was tall enough to reach the other side of the river.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

It measures about twelve to fourteen hands tall at the shoulders.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

But they are not tall enough to reach the grapes.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

To get it,however, they have to go through or get rid of the Pandora natives: a tall,blue-skinned tribe called the Na'vi.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

General McChrystal comes to Afghanistan with a tall order from President Barack Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Bill DeMong says that growing up in Lake Placid, New York,with the 26-story tall large hill jump tower on the horizon, he was always exposed to the sport.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

A spokesman for North Melbourne said the teenager, who is 194 centimeters tall and is still growing, had "enormous potential" to succeed at the highest level of the Australian Rules Football League, a nationwide organization with 16 professional teams.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17