But almost four years after the last recession started, there still has been no real recovery.
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As finance minister for almost four years until May, he enjoyed the best of economic times.
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For almost four years now federal investigators have been stymied by one man, Anthony Pellicano.
Shares in Samsung fell 7% in Seoul trading, their biggest one-day fall in almost four years.
The telescope was launched almost four years ago and sent to an observing position 1.5 million km from Earth.
The average lapse between first and second births in South Africa is almost four years.
Safeway, a Britain-based retailer, built a 2-terabyte database with IBM to store almost four years' worth of customer data.
Nick Barmby finds himself back in the England squad after almost four years in the wilderness of international football.
Books are still being written about the financial crisis, almost four years later.
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Mr Taylor's solicitor David McKie said it had been a complex test case which had taken almost four years to conclude.
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When a market has been rising for almost four years it is much more difficult to find stocks with long-term bases.
Here we still sputter almost four years after the Fed began splurging.
For all the talk of his supposed temper and indiscipline, his last red card in a United shirt came almost four years ago.
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Mr. Hyde has presided over this committee in an extremely fair manner for the almost four years that he has served as chairman.
The winery took almost four years to build because it involved dynamiting into the hill behind it to create two 3, 500-square-foot stone wine caves.
The family of an autistic boy from Nottinghamshire who has not eaten food for almost four years have managed to raise money for treatment abroad.
It was the first such economic contraction in almost four years.
In August 1995, when the U.S. at last stepped in and took the lead, the war in the former Yugoslavia had been raging almost four years.
Qantas will delay the delivery of two A380 planes by almost four years as it announced fresh spending cuts in a bid to streamline its operations.
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Today, almost four years after the recession ended, there are still more than 3 million fewer Americans working than in November, 2007, more than 5 years ago!
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This staved off an immediate banking collapse, but enraged middle-class depositors, and drained the economy of liquidity, worsening a depression that has already lasted almost four years.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed above 13000 for the first time in almost four years, though it failed to hang onto the gains through the day's end.
Japanese retail sales have been falling for almost four years.
We now have almost four years of Barack Obama.
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Almost four years since the beginning of the Great Recession, signified by the implosion of the financial industry and the fall of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the United States is recovering.
Boy with Frog, which is gleaming white and 8ft (2.5m) tall, has occupied the tip of a triangular piece of land that separates the Grand and the Giudecca canals for almost four years.
It would have to work hard for those savings considering that NYSE Euronext is still the process of moving all its current exchanges onto a single electronic platform, almost four years after its merger.
"Our lives have been on hold for the last almost four years waiting for this surgery, getting him through Walter Reed and getting to the point where he was pretty independent, " said mother Michelle Marrocco.
The most-indebted U.S. companies are rallying more than any time in almost four years compared with the rest of the stock market amid the broadest rally since at least 1995, Bloomberg reported on May 20.
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