Mrs. Gardner once said that she decided years ago that the greatest need in her country was art.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The festival was started fifteen years ago in the parking lot of a store that sold alcoholic beverages.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

One northerner wrote: "It was said hundreds of years ago that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

We look closely at a marble statue of a "kouros", or young man that was made over two thousand five hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

This museum has a large display of southern furniture that was used over two hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

That was down from last year, but still about twenty-five percent more than ten years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

That was forty years ago, a time of civil disorder and high crime.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

That was down from over fifteen thousand ten years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Well,I got them saddles built, and then somebody would say 'Hey,why don't you build me a saddle?'" That was how Nancy Martiny got into the saddle making business twenty years ago.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

That was about four years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

That was 50 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

And then,years ago when I first found out that I was HIV positive, my initial reason for doing glass was I wanted to leave one glass vase for my nephew and nieces to remember their uncle by.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

"This is something,after all, that first came to the attention of the American public one hundred years ago when a national health insurance program was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and successive presidents, mostly Democrats but not all, have favored it."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Most are amazed that this is the same country that was ripped apart by genocide just 15 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Political analyst Yasunori Sone says the Japanese election law is a complicated maze that was written more than 50 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"The pill 50 years ago was a very high dose pill, "It is a fraction of that now.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"We qualified for the 1/16th, that was four years ago in Germany. And this time, we were able to qualify to the quarterfinals.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

It was 10 years ago that Bill and Melinda Gates first made their commitment to vaccine research.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29