This week,government scientists raised their estimate of the leak to between thirty-five and sixty thousand barrels of oil each day.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

Now I will also say that a five-page paper written well can trump an eight-page paper written poorly any day of the week.

我还要说的是,写得好的五页报告永远胜过写得差的八页报告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Stock prices took a roller-coaster ride this week -- down one day,up the next.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Last week, they organized protests around the country on tax day - the deadline for Americans to report their annual income and pay any taxes due.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

We controlled for other well-known fixed calendar (we call them Gregorian anomalies), notably,day of the week effect, like Monday,January effect, Halloween effect, and none of those factors explained results.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

While France's famous 35-hour work week is no longer compulsory, many French workers still enjoy what amounts to a seven-hour day, and many have weeks of paid vacations each year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

"Civil Society plays a key role in helping to communicate the need for mothers to bring their children in early for vaccines to complete the vaccination series to make sure that non-governmental organizations deliver and offer vaccines not only one day a week necessarily but on a regular basis,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28