But that was less than they fell at the end of two thousand eight compared to a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

There was a big doc-forum took place in Seoul earlier this year.

今年的早些时候，首尔举行了一场大型的纪录片论坛。

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American exports decreased almost 2% in November from a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Japanese exports decreased almost 27% in November from a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

That was double a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Iron ore production in the three months hit 32.45 million metric tons, up from 29.4 million tons a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Unemployment in March stood at more than 15 percent, a dramatic jump from just over four percent a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Assessments of the performance of the national government rose slightly from a similar poll taken a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

In the first nine months of 2009, capital inflows stood at just $12 billion one fifth the level of a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The Pacific Asia Travel Association says the recovery had gathered momentum, with international visitor arrivals in the region increasing three percent in November compared with a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Still,a study earlier this year found that most Americans think having darker skin is appealing and gives a healthy look.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Earlier this year, Tomohiko Hagino in Japan wrote to ask for information about a painful disease -- fibromyalgia.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

The plans include a decision earlier this year to cancel a program to return to the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Earlier this year, a professor at the University of Western Australia commented on the overuse of glyphosate.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Earlier this year, a judge in the state of Florida was forced to declare a mistrial after eight weeks in a federal drug case.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

The earlier report estimated profits from trafficking alone at more than thirty billion dollars a year.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

The report earlier this year urged Congress to establish a National Institute of Forensic Science.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

In the United States, a two-year study requested by Congress was released earlier this year.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

Earlier this year,a special World Meteorological Organization committee reported on severe storms.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

A World Bank report earlier this year called attention to the problem.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

This is what longtime resident Susan Trinter, editor of the Foggy Bottom News, said in a Washington Post story earlier this year: "There seem to be many more students living off-campus now.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

Explorer Pen Hadow led a two-and-a-half-month trek earlier this year that revealed Arctic ice is melting faster than previously thought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

IATA had earlier forecast global passenger traffic to contract by two percent this year, with a recovery in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Lawmakers smashed open doors and staged a weeks-long sit-in to prevent votes related to the deal earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

They recused themselves because they had served on a canvassing board that performed a recount earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

South Korean Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo says North Korea has stepped back from a strident demand it made earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and,earlier this year, The Wailers' album,"Catch A Fire,"

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

But these same rescuers scored a victory earlier Tuesday, when they rescued a 69-year-old woman from the ruins of the same compound.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

The two leaders will meet in the Czech capital, where,one year earlier, President Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04