With the three parties running so close, each candidate will be hoping to distinguish himself as a clear leader, in the hope of pulling ahead and avoiding a hung parliament - where no one party wins a majority of seats.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"It will be interesting to see, perhaps in years and months to come, if what's happening right now with Amiri has anything to do for instance, with the three hikers who have been held in Iran for about a year now."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

John Lewis combined classical music with traditional jazz to create songs for himself and the three other members of his quartet.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

It must have fourteen lines, with three groups of four lines that set up the subject or problem of the poem.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

A business plan,in the words of the Small Business Administration in Washington, is a tool with three basic purposes.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

A Yemeni deputy prime minister said Thursday that the twenty-three year old Nigerian met last year in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Tardos Mors met with the soldier and reported that every creature on the planet had but three days to live.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

An American State Department spokesman said IHH representatives have met with top Hamas officials over the past three years.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

After high school, the Cleveland Cavaliers chose LeBron James with the first pick in the two thousand three National Basketball Association draft.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

The committee report was the first of three planned to deal with the release of the C.R.U.'s private e-mails on the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Brown's lawyers then argued that he was not guilty of the three crimes with which he was charged.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

She returned home with more than three thousand photographs C the first western documentary on the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

They found that a city with only white rooftops could reduce the urban heat effect by thirty-three percent.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Maya Lin worked with ocean scientists to develop a three dimensional image of this part of the ocean.

VOA: special.2009.05.06