• Four years ago, Cotswold District Council made an Air Quality Management Area Order because the NO2 levels at the Air Balloon roundabout exceeded the recommended thresholds.

    BBC: Google

  • At least 13 Pakistani security troops were killed in a similar cross-border raid by Taliban in the neighbouring Lower Dir district two months ago.

    BBC: Afghan militants ambush Pakistan troops in Upper Dir

  • Hillbrow, once the favoured destination of the emerging black middle class, was its funkiest nightclub district a decade ago (some guidebooks still urge tourists to go there).

    ECONOMIST: A city��s metamorphosis

  • He was appointed to head Malkangiri district 16 months ago.

    BBC: Kidnapped Indian engineer freed by Maoists in Orissa

  • It moved into the former George Henry Lee building on Basnett Street in the heart of the city's retail district three years ago, leaving its original premises on Renshaw Street.

    BBC: Liverpool store Rapid employees made redundant

  • Superintendent Paul Hurst, who came to the district five years ago, launched what he termed a "nook and cranny" tour of all schools and found a few classrooms, and then paired with private day-care centers to offer more slots.

    WSJ: Oklahoma Is Public Preschool's Test Case

  • Two years ago, the Houston Independent School District began offering the SAT free during class time.

    WSJ: SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take Exam

  • Obviously in our regular meetings with him, White House Counsel Bob Bauer will update him on where different courts are, a few -- not long ago in terms of the Western District of Virginia, that was something we covered.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • An antitrust suit against International Speedway was thrown out a year ago by a U.S. District Court judge in Kentucky.

    FORBES: NASCAR's Trouble At The Track

  • He and his family left their house in the south Baghdad district of Dora two years ago after he found a note stuck to the front gate.

    NPR: Refugees Returning to Iraq Find Homes Occupied

  • Rasool said his decision to leave his home in Hisarak district came nearly a month ago after a particularly blistering air assault killed five people in the neighboring village of Meya Saheeb.

    NPR: Afghan Villagers Flee Their Homes, Blame US Drones

  • Until a few years ago, Nad Ali was a relatively peaceful district in the central Helmand river valley.

    BBC: UK troops launch Operation Tor Shezada in Afghanistan

  • The mall sits in an entertainment district that opened about a decade ago on farmland on the outskirts of Kansas City.

    WSJ: Deal of the Week: KKR Catches KC Legends

  • But a few weeks ago, Scarcella was summoned to the Brooklyn district attorney's office and told that a recent review revealed too many flaws in the case to hold Ranta any longer.

    NPR: Retired Detective Defends Record In NYC Case

  • Two years ago Jeremy Hawkins downshifted from London's financial district, where he had worked for 23 years, to a home-based life.

    CNN: Taking a step into the slow lane

  • People living in the area had concerns about a lack of out-of-hours cover following the retirement of the district nurse and two GPs a year ago.

    BBC: NHS Highland to lead remote healthcare project

  • Just two years ago, residents of the city's Allston district learned that Harvard had secretly acquired 52 acres of property there, an act that provoked outrage.

    ECONOMIST: Town and gown: Charity moves off-campus | The

  • The ruling presented a striking contrast to a decision on the same issue by another Virginia federal district judge, Norman Moon, just two weeks ago.

    WSJ: Judge Sides With Virginia on Health Law

  • And, again, we talked a little bit about this yesterday, but a lot of coverage happened for just two weeks -- not a lot of coverage happened for something two weeks ago where the -- where a judge in a different district in the same commonwealth ruled and upheld the constitutionality of the very same provision that a judge ruled differently on yesterday.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The fourth is a hangover from the former district councils, which were abolished more than two years ago.

    BBC: Cornwall Council to tighten parking scheme

  • All of this comes after a long running campaign three years ago against plans to downgrade the consultant led maternity unit at the District General Hospital.

    BBC: England

  • John Luciw's family moved to the suburban district of Discovery Bay, on Lantau island three year ago, in the belief that the air quality is better there.

    BBC: Pollution threatens Hong Kong's competitiveness

  • The ambitious restoration recalls what he'd done for the Puerto Madero district of Buenos Aires, a project he began 10 years ago.

    WSJ: Alan Faena's Argentine Residence

  • Some states and districts are looking to adopt a system like the one in Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, where the district created exams for every subject at every grade five years ago in an effort to award merit pay to teachers.

    WSJ: Teacher Evaluations Pose Test for States

  • In Brisbane, which was paralysed by flooding two years ago, water has been creeping into low-lying parts of the central business district.

    BBC: 'Major flood crisis' hits Queensland, Australia

  • About five years ago, the obvious place for patent-holders to sue was a cluster of district court in some tiny, dusty towns in Eastern Texas.

    FORBES: Why Apple Went To Dusseldorf

  • Up until a couple of years ago this relatively isolated alley, surrounded by high-rise apartments in the western district of Xuanwu, was Beijing's oldest surviving alley, clocking in at a wheezing 900 years old and predating even the Mongol-designed hutong network.

    BBC: Old Beijing at its timeless best

  • The last local election was held in Wiltshire four years ago, when the county council and North Wiltshire, Kennet, Salisbury and West Wiltshire district councils came together to form a unitary authority - Wiltshire Council.

    BBC: Wiltshire

  • Ryan's mother, Carol Duffin, was so angered by the early start which she says has been creeping earlier in her district for years she launched "Save Tennessee Summers" seven years ago and lobbied state lawmakers unsuccessfully for legislation barring a pre-Labor Day first bell.

    WSJ: School in August Gets Low Grades

  • As recently as five years ago, Putnam City Schools offered half-day preschool to 900 children, largely because the district lacked space for full day, according to district officials.

    WSJ: Oklahoma Is Public Preschool's Test Case

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