Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

John, let me give you one more, one other statistic During the last 7 years, the Bush presidency household debt has almost tripled.

约翰，我再给你一项数据,布什上台后的这7年里,家庭债务翻了三番。

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The last time an American official visited the North was nine years ago during Mister Clinton's presidency.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

South America and Africa had the highest yearly loss of forests during the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

U.S.officials say,in addition to the refueling operation, Japan has contributed $2 billion worth of aid to Afghanistan during the last eight years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"Possibly,he is one of the most effective members of the Congress that served during the last 20 years,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The automaker has lost more than $80 billion during the last four years.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

"This year it is very important for us to in a consensus, we decide together, not to look for war and not to repeat the bad experience we had during these last 10 years,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

General Myers spent four years as the top U.S.military officer, starting just weeks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, through the early successes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and ending in late 2005, just before the major outbreak of violence in Iraq and well before the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan during the last two years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16