Two years later, in the lighthearted film "Cheaper by the Dozen,"

VOA: special.2009.05.04

In the dozen years it has taken him to get the story made into a movie, the exploits of real scientists have come close to what his fictional characters attempt.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Though the dig,along a paved highway that was constructed in recent years complicating the work of the anthropologists had yet to yield any results after four days,Elena and the dozen or so family members of presumed victims thought to be buried here have refused to give up hope.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Six of one,half a dozen the other that was their position.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But despite the small swing to Obame, there were still more than a dozen candidates running on their own.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

He asks why did this happen? Both of Kurdistan's ruling parties, the KDP and the PUK, ran jointly against several-dozen smaller parties.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Drayna says therapies to replace enzymes that cause the diseases have been developed to treat half a dozen of these metabolic disorders.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

an endearing addition to the distant mountains,corn fields and lake a few dozen kilometers outside bustling Beijing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Released in 1955, it was the first of more than a dozen Top 10 R&B hits Richard collected over the next three years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

He always puts his right ski boot on first, he touches his helmet and goggles two dozen times before leaving the start house.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

They are on a trial basis at the moment." Fewer than two dozen U.S.airports possess full body scanners, which cost about $170,000 each.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

and there are plans to dismantle about two dozen illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

Voters have several dozen presidential candidates to choose among, including the favorite and incumbent, Mr.Hamid Karzai.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

The first trawl is disappointing. They have only a dozen lobsters for twice as many traps.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

At least 10 people were killed and nearly two dozen wounded last Sunday after fighting between al-Shabab and AU peacekeepers broke out around the seaport.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Airspace was closed Saturday in at least parts of more than a dozen countries - in some countries, the skies were emptied of commercial flights.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

About a dozen more officers were injured when the truck exploded and flipped over.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

In the past three days at least a dozen people have been killed in clashes between the Shabab and a Sufi Islam militia in central Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

The worst explosion occurred near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where eyewitnesses say a car-bomb packed with explosives killed more than two dozen worshippers at a mosque.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Most of those killed in last week's earthquake died when a landslide triggered by the quake swept boulders as big as trucks across a dozen homes in the village of Cikangkareng.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Omission is also very important,". Reeler's report was based on investigations by more than one dozen human rights groups which,he says, used different methods but came to the same basic conclusions.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

This is the first time the alliance of more than a dozen militant groups with links to al-Qaida has claimed responsibility since its former leader Baitullah Mehsud was reportedly killed in a U.S.missile strike.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

In the last month couple of months, more than two dozen Turkish soldiers have been killed and scores injured in a major escalation in PKK attacks across the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Federal agents and local El Paso authorities have targeted the Barrio Azteca gang in this investigation, detaining some two dozen gang members on warrants issued against them for other crimes and also questioning them for leads in the case.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The house in Tecun Uman has been at the service of migrants for more than a dozen years, explains Ademar Barilli, a Catholic priest from Brazil, who supervised the construction of the house on the site of what was a city garbage dump.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"We saw this weekend the video of the death of Nada, a young girl on the streets of Tehran, as well as about a dozen others reports even by the Governing Council of Iran that the votes in 50 Iranian cities were more than the number of people that lived in those cities."

VOA: standard.2009.06.23