The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

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This year, no, not really. Um, years past, I was in a Columbia Political Union,

今年没有，但是去年，我参加了哥伦比亚政治联盟，

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It is breathtaking. The new administration's budget for next year alone calls for a $1.2 trillion deficit nearly triple any past federal deficit,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

So this is perhaps a site that some of you have spent way too much time on last year, if not in the past week or so, com this is isawyouharvard.com.

很多同学去年的时候,在这个网站上花费了很多时间，可能上周还玩了，这个网站的网址是isawyouharvard。

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Gold,whose prices have surged in the past year, is seen as a hedge against a slumping dollar.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

It also says that a truce will allow the rebels to recover from the devastating defeat they have suffered in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

For many investors in Asia, gold's role as a source of safety and value has been reinforced over the past year of economic uncertainty.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

It has experienced internal divisions and rising tensions in the past year, as major political parties struggle to agree on a basic political structure.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

A year has past The memory of the violence is fresh for Faraj Soumani,23.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

BHP Billition said in a statement that government stimulus measures imposed over the past year "appear to have supported a gradual return to normalized global trade."

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

"Everyone's unemployment rates have gone up in the past year, year and a half.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Statistics from Australia's National Tidal Center show sea levels have increased by 8.6 millimeters a year off Perth and by 8.1 off the tropical Kimberley region over the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

In the past year, the United States says it helped the Kenyan army develop a Ranger Strike Force, an elite counter-terrorism unit capable of conducting operations against infiltrators and armed groups.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Japan is the world's second largest economy, but it has suffered more than Over the past year, it has suffered a deep recession, although the economy now appears to be growing slowly now.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

While this past year has been a challenge for the opposition Green Movement, senior scholar Gary Sick of Columbia University says that in the aftermath of the election, the Iranian government also faces a huge challenge.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

"And you know, with us doing that we got back to this point and got past where we were last year and we are happy to be able to compete for a national championship on Monday night."

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

For much of the past century there were average global increases of 1.7 millimeters a year, but that rate doubled between 1993 and 2007.(мظ) Some regions, notably Western Australia have suffered more than others, partly,scientists say, because of how gravitational pull affects tides.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

U.N.Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy says during the past year, a significant number of child soldiers were released by the National Liberation Forces in Burundi and more children are to be released in the Central African Republic and the Philippines as a result of active intervention by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"More alarmingly,WHO estimates if the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment were to be sustained or continued, this could result to a return of a half a million measles deaths each year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"This past year, I was a visiting scholar for the Phi Beta Kappa Society and went to small liberal arts colleges in the United States, and not only gave public lectures about science, but also research lectures, and then also spoke with women about the importance of bringing their intellectual force, which is formidable, to the scientific arena in the future."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29