Secretary Gates said he has launched a year-long study of the possible effects of a change in the law.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

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

About twenty-seven percent said they plan to go to graduate school, compared to about twenty-four percent a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

And the plan calls for one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to poor nations to deal with climate change.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

She released her first children's books in nineteen seventy, a year after her first book of poetry was published.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

One study of agencies that list women seeking husbands found there were around ten thousand "mail-order marriages" a year.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier - the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

A year later,President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

A year later, the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

The Chronicle of Higher Education says at least fifty-eight private colleges now charge fifty thousand dollars or more a year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The scientists say seven hundred fifty large rock lobsters were released a year ago in waters near Tasmania's northeast coast.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Yet the study found that having a friend who is lonely can add about seventeen days a year of loneliness.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

In the end, they are permitted to meet just once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

VOA: special.2010.02.08