Several people are credited with being the first to use microfinance as a tool for social improvement.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Several things have made climbing Everest easier now than it was for the first climbers.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The first shipload of several hundred gold seekers landed at Skagway on July twenty-sixth,eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons of several animals that no longer existed on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

The price of wheat rose for the first time in several years.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Footwear sales rose by about 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, with exports to several markets, including China,up.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

Harold Leslie is a senior installation manager: "We've brought on several new people since the first of the year."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

As first the U.S.and then the world economy slipped into recession, several efforts to unlock credit have failed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Staff Sergeant Derek Brock is used to the waiting. He didn't fly his first real rescue until several years into his career.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

In choosing his first group of Medal of Freedom recipients, the president selected several women who have made their mark on American life.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

"He would become, after several attempts, one of the first openly gay Americans elected to public office.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Mr.Obama delivered his first commencement address as president to the University of Arizona several days ago.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

After setting off from the synagogue, participants in the unity walk were invited to enter several houses of worship along Massachusetts Avenue for the first time.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Several hundred thousand young Namibians are voting for the first time.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

the latest single from American Saturday Night. He recently performed the song and several others at the White House for President Barack Obama, the first lady and members of Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The story really begins in Iraq several years ago, when insurgents first began using home-made roadside bombs against the High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee,the main vehicle the troops were using.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

(Spiegler was among a handful of people who helped create the field.) In their first case, the lawyers representing the East German government, recovered several portraits owned by one of the country's museums.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

A U.S.announcement Tuesday that special envoy Stephen Bosworth will visit Pyongyang before the end of the year nearly coincided with reports of the naval skirmish, the first of its kind in several years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The U.S.took the lead after several near misses in the first half, after striker Jozy Altidore took a pass from Clint Dempsey and held off two Spanish defenders, then slammed a shot off the hands of Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas and into the net.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24