Calhoun said that for a long time he had believed that the dispute over slavery -- if not settled -- would end in disunion.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Stocks have paid 4% more a year over this incredibly long time period than short-term bonds.

股票在相当长的一段时间里,每年都比短期债券投资收益率,高出4个百分点。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This is on page 1166, bottom of the right-hand column, and then over to 1167, a relatively long passage: Hence Freud is able to proffer, with a certain bravado, the formulation: "the aim of all life is death."

这在1166页，右边底部，然后跨到1167页，这段比较长：,所以弗洛伊德可以冒险提出一个公式：,“生命的目的是死亡“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

For example,companies that own their suppliers can avoid long-term contracts and disputes over prices.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Other people would argue, "No. A woman has full freedom over her own body and as long as a fetus is within the body they--she has a right to control it."

其他人可能会说，“不，女人有控制她们身体的自由,只要胎儿是在她体内,她就有权去控制它”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This long-time policy gave senators firm control over local federal jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He wrote this about his experience: I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four,not three. The American poet T.S.Eliot was influenced by Shackletons description.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

North Korea fired a long-range missile over Japan in 1998 in an action that generated broad international protests.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"Time is up," "Over the next two weeks, governments have to deliver a strong and long-term response to the challenges of climate change."

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

The bathyscaphe is over 16 meters long, and its gasoline-filled flotation chamber's deck,rails, and conning tower make it look a bit like a submarine.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

In the year-long battle over reform, President Obama stressed the importance of billions of dollars in longer-term savings from reducing waste in the current health care system.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

It records the progress of thousands of catheterization patients over the long-term.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Pakistan says resumption of the dialog must focus on resolving the long-standing disagreement over the Kashmir region, claimed by both countries and a catalyst for several of their wars against each other.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

U.S.officials say the self-described satellite launch would only be a cover for a test of a long-range missile, perhaps a more advanced version of the one North Korea fired eastward over Japan in 1998.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"I think this will reverberate very loudly in the region, and you will see it perceived especially by our enemies, by the Taliban and al-Qaida, as an admission that America is losing its will and is not committed over the long term, and they will be able to convince their recruits to wait the U.S.out,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06