It said the drop was mainly the result of fewer cases of lung, prostate and colorectal cancer in men.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

For example,she noted that crops designed to resist damage by glyphosate need fewer pesticides that are more toxic to the soil.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

"In general,we find that genetically engineered crops have had fewer adverse effects on the environment than non-GE crops produced conventionally."

VOA: special.2010.04.27

But even in two thousand two, fewer than eleven percent of patents were awarded to women in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Last year was the first year since two thousand four that Hawaii has had fewer than seven million visitors.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The researchers knew it would be easier and less costly to map a smaller frog with fewer chromosomal pairs.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

The study found there is strong support for restricting work by doctors-in-training to sixteen or fewer hours at one time.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

But they believe there is a helpful change in the way the body processes energy in the monkeys that eat fewer calories.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

But fewer camels than in the past were traded at a recent camel fair in Pushkar, in Rajasthan.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

But with fewer solar panels, they fell behind the German team on the most important requirement: energy production.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Parents given the counts chose an average of one hundred two fewer calories when asked what they would order for their children.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Minority children, especially Hispanics, are increasing at a fast rate while the United States has fewer white children.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

They also reported sleeping longer on school nights and making fewer tiredness-related visits to the school health center.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Women who used the gel more than eighty percent of the times when they had sex had fifty-four percent fewer HIV infections.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

The study found that many farmers have better harvests, better weed control and fewer losses from insect damage compared to traditional crops.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

The monkeys that ate fewer calories look younger and healthier than fatter monkeys on an unrestricted diet.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

There are still some public housing apartments for poor people, but many fewer than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The newer Champagne bottle only weighs about sixty-five fewer grams than the traditional nine hundred gram bottle.

VOA: special.2010.10.20