But health costs are increasing at an average of about six percent a year -- far ahead of inflation.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

If it was a twenty-year bond, there would be forty coupons, one for each six-month period, and each one would have a date on it.

假如是20年债券,会有40张息票,每六个月一张,并且上面会有日期

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The International Monetary Fund has raised its prediction for world economic growth to four and six-tenths percent this year.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

In nineteen forty-six,Goldwyn received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award for his excellent movie productions during the Academy Award ceremonies that year.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

In nineteen eighty-six, sixteen year old Rakim started to work with the New York City music producer,Eric B.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

The World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year -- another victim every six seconds.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Under a nineteen eighty-six law, presidents are supposed to report their national security goals to Congress each year.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

The study examined employment records for eight cities in Minnesota for a three-year period through two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Pirates have attacked at least sixty-one ships so far, compared to six for the same period last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Researchers say it resulted in fifty-six thousand hospital emergency room visits a year during the nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Researchers say it resulted in fifty-six thousand emergency room visits a year during the nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

This year about four hundred Boy Scouts from twenty-six other countries also attended the National Jamboree.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

This was an estimate of the number of words a six-year-old should be able to read.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Last year,eighty-six scientists from around the world found all the genes in "Golden Delicious" apples.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

The saxophonist died a year ago in a vehicle accident at the age of forty-six.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

That decision came on November thirteenth, nineteen fifty-six, almost a year after Missus Parks's arrest.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The loans are a share of the one-hundred-fifty-six-billion-dollar rescue deal that Greece secured last year.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

On Wednesday,Mark Zuckerberg, the twenty-six year old chief executive of Facebook, announced changes.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

They had six children over a seven-year period, four girls and two boys.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Six-year-old Kobe learned to speak Italian and started playing basketball and soccer.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

In February, exports from China fell twenty-six percent from a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Twenty-six thousand foreign exchange students are in American high schools this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

This year,six hundred forty-two acts from fifty-nine countries were invited to perform.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Doctor Shah is the thirty-six year old son of Indian immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

The unemployment rate reached a twenty-six year high in October.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Each year they injure or kill about twenty-six thousand people.

VOA: special.2010.05.03