"Rates of increase for international students coming to America were a little bit slower in the last year and we think that reflects the global recession.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

The key transit route from Pakistan's ports to military bases in Afghanistan has been repeatedly attacked in the last year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The pace of job losses has declined dramatically in the last year, but nearly 15 million Americans are still out of work.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Despite Pakistan's public objections, the United States has sharply increased the number of drone strikes in the last year, with more than 40 since the beginning of 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

"I think,in very general terms, in the last year or two, that the strident public criticism and denunciation rom the outside has also been a factor and has in my view has been something of a mistake,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

in the last year we've had the decision the BBC wouldn't broadcast the conference against climate change because they thought it was too partisan, wouldn't have an appeal for the fund for the victims in Gaza, but is quite prepared to give Nick Griffin prime time TV,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

The latest report estimated charitable giving in the United States last year at more than three hundred seven billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

America's National Cancer Institute reports that more than one million people in the United States developed skin cancer last year.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

The International Maritime Bureau reports there were one hundred eleven pirate attacks in waters near the Somali coast last year.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

But since last year there has been little activity in the seven hundred fifty billion dollar market for commercial mortgage securities.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Last year,a study in the medical journal Neurology found smoking to be an established risk factor in developing the disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

The Institute of International Education in New York says last year's top five were India, China, South Korea, Japan and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06