They filled the long grassy area from the steps of the United States Capitol building to the Lincoln Memorial.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

In United states, only five percent wait that long.

在美国，只有五分之一的病人需等待。

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And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.

美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。

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Edward Kennedy never won the presidency, but became a long- serving and important member of the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

But such fast trains would take a long time to put in place in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

He will not be disturbed by United States authorities as long as he honors this agreement and obeys the laws where he lives.'

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The last time the United States Education Department asked young people how long they took to finish college was in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

For example,in the United States the tradition of making quilts has a long and rich history.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Before long, he controlled ninety-five percent of the oil processing industry in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The United Nations says some African farmers grow bambara groundnuts during long dry periods.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

The process for employing foreign workers in the United States is long.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Yet,they proved that long-distance travel across the United States was possible.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Briton Gary McKinnon lost his long legal battle Friday, and could face extradition to the United States as early as September.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Economists have long assumed that job creation would lag behind overall improvement of economic conditions in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

"This alliance will stand united and we will stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes to finish our job,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The retired Air Force officer says the United States and its allies need to make that kind of decades-long commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Short-range test launches are not formally prohibited under United Nations sanctions against the North, which forbid medium and long-range ballistic activities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

The long-range rocket Pyongyang intends to launch is theoretically capable of delivering a warhead as far as the western United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The lone country in the Americas excluded from the summit,Cuba, and its long-frozen relations with the United States came to overshadow the gathering.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

She added the United States intends to continue its economic assistance and training of Afghan security forces for a long time to come.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Secretary Gates said the United States will continue to have a long-term commitment to helping Afghanistan even after the security transition is completed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

North Korea is warning the United States not to send surveillance planes too close to the site of a planned long-range rocket launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Morrell quoted Gates as telling President Barzani the United States has a long-term commitment to Kurdish "security, prosperity and autonomy within a united Iraq."

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's 50-minute address included a long list of grievances against the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"Speaking for the United States, our civilian commitment will continue long after our combat forces leave.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Pyongyang pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and a nuclear explosive, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

In that time he has signaled his intention to seek trade deals with other Asian nations, and review Japan's long-term military basing agreements with the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

North Korea pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and nuclear explosive earlier in the year, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The exchange of prisoners between the United States and Russia is expected to bring an end to a weeks-long espionage scandal that fascinated the media, but was downplayed by both governments.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

The last phase of the new missile defense plan, to be ready by 2020, would be to develop interceptors with the capability of blocking long-range Iranian missiles aimed at the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17