So we make buildings that require very little heating in the winter or indeed very little cooling in the summer.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

A news report,for example, might say that people in Washington were battening down the hatches for a big winter storm.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Tradition says that if a groundhog sees its shadow, that means people can expect six more weeks of winter weather.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

But anyone who has ever lived in Chicago knows how cold that wind can be in winter.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

The flowers are mostly gone. It is not surprising that some people are sad in winter.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

We were extremely lucky. In the winter of eighteen sixty-five we found rocks that held gold.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The studies found that the sharks went to warmer waters of the Atlantic during the winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

That strange winter with my father on his boat was the happiest of my life.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

He stayed in Seth's cabin and hunted animals every day of that long lonely winter.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

During the winter of that year, Clemente returned to Puerto Rico with this family.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Many people do not know that carrots can be grown during the winter months.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

Today we tell about the Winter Olympic Games that open February twelfth in Vancouver,Canada.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

He warned that the nation faced the possibility of a winter without heating fuel.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

That is the name of a very popular song about winter.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

"I take it that most of your soldiers are small farmers and will need the horses to put in a crop that will carry themselves and their families through the next winter.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

In the poem "Mending Wall" the speaker and his neighbor walk together along a wall, repairing the damage caused by winter weather: Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast...

VOA: special.2011.04.17

A winter storm that slammed the northeast of the United States the Saturday before Christmas may have delayed some shoppers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

But that would have to happen quickly before snow fall would make many areas inaccessible for the winter.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"I am bringing up winter Olympics to a country that has no tradition on the snow sports,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

There have been concerns expressed that a run-off election cannot safely be held in the coming weeks because of security threats and oncoming winter weather.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

He thought,'I could do that,' and eventually started training to become Peru's first winter Olympian.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

She says that's more of a reflection on the fact there are less athletes and events in the Winter Olympics than a sign of the recession.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

In this climate of unease, Mr.Obama addressed the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting near the White House, and reassured the party faithful that he will continue the fight.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

"We expect that to last a little bit longer, but then in the fall and winter we will see a very big surge, as we have seen in previous pandemics,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.31