The world had been at war for years.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

The world had changed.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The head of the World Meteorological Organization,Michel Jarraud, said most areas of the world had above normal temperatures in 2009.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Twenty years after the Civil War, the Unitedbl States had become one of the leading industrial nations of the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

It was the first time so many men one hundred thousand had fought against each other in the western world.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

And.He created the kind of world he would have wanted to live in if he had been a man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Last December, the Australia-based company Invetech reported that it had delivered the world's first production model 3-D bio-printer for Organovo.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

An American stuck in London, already one of the world's highest priced cities, found that her hotel had doubled its prices.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

At that point, they had not been American League or World Series winners since the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Thomas Jefferson did not like what the Count had said about the natural wonders of the New World.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

He had the world famous telescope maker Alvan Clark and Sons make a telescope for his observatory.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Settlers in the American west also had a problem faced by many people in the world today.

VOA: special.2010.04.15