However you like them, for best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

He set one by playing poker for seventy-two hours, which was a record for that card game.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

In return,they earned one hundred twenty-five dollars, later raised to two hundred fifty dollars, for each book.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

He stood two hundred thirty-one centimeters -- tall even for a Dinka, some of Africa's tallest people.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Every state is different. The association says Vermont has one nurse for every two hundred seventy-five students.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

For best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

VOA: special.2009.02.17

"Rhonda Smith of Tennessee described how in two thousand six her Toyota-made Lexus sped up for a time to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

In nineteen ninety, there were two hundred twenty-five deaths for every one thousand live births.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The storm gave two airports in the Washington,D.C.area their highest one-day snowfall totals for December.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Vertebrate species,for example, decreased by nearly one-third between nineteen seventy and two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The latest 3-D TVs work by dividing picture images in two,one for each eye.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

"Historically, during our last two recessions in ninety-one and two thousand one it's taken twenty-three months in ninety-one and about thirty-six months, three years,in our last recession in two thousand one for the United States to regain the jobs lost in the recession."

VOA: special.2009.11.06

But this was less than one percent short of the two-thirds majority the ANC had campaigned for and four percentage points less than it won in elections five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

nuclear technology and hardware. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Robert Blake, traveling with the Secretary in India, says the Clinton visit is likely to produce follow-on agreements including one designating two sites in India for U.S.designed nuclear power plants.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

"What we try to do is - for each hospital that we work with - become the number one or number two provider of U.S.patients, so that we really can build a very good relationship with those hospitals and make sure that patient benefits from that."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08