The problem may last a few seconds, but it can get worse and worse with age, leading to a heart attack or stroke.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

New figures are due on Friday, and the White House has been warning that joblessness will get worse before it improves.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

And the bad news is it is going to get worse and we're not coming out of this fast.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

Spain has the highest unemployment rate in Europe at 20 percent, and it is likely to get worse.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"And it looks like it is only going to get worse with no strong imposition of security or authority even after the election."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

This latest disaster is likely to get worse. Authorities say here are still dozens missing and being rescued from what is left of their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

But the economic situation is likely to get worse in Europe before it gets better.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

The country now only offers loans. Abe says the government must act quickly because she says the problem will only get worse, in the next few years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

"I think you get used to it after a while." "Once in a while it will get worse, so then it is a little bit nauseating, but it is actually fine, it is not too bad,I am used to it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

"The prediction is that in the next 20 years to 30 years, if the situation continues to get worse, the productivity from the agricultural sector and from subsistence farming in Africa, the production would reduce by as much as 50 percent,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"And the only think worse than the policy itself has been the process that the Democrats have followed to get this passed,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

It will get a lot worse if we don't get our act together, but it's already started."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

But his health took a turn for the worse in early 2000 and he needed to get serious about being upgraded on the list.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Things are real bad and it is going to get a lot worse.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

President Obama says he expects the nation's jobless rate, which is the highest it has been in 26 years, to get still worse before it gets better.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14