The Federal Reserve recently extended into next year a loan program designed to get investors to buy more securities like these.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

"This year a lot of stores are trying to reduce prices to help bring customers in during this time of recession.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

America's Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about one hundred thousand sea animals die each year as a result of the plastic waste.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Mister Quinn says world leaders will discuss the issue later this year at a meeting on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

The next year a women's rights leader from Germany suggested the idea of an international celebration.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

About a year and a half ago, his goat Millie was giving him a hard time.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

She says she earns more than one hundred thousand dollars a year as a bead designer.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

In the year and a half before the ban, hospitals had 399 admissions for heart attacks.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

One year at a private medical college can cost forty thousand dollars -- or more.

VOA: special.2010.07.13