He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

He looked at a group of hedge funds that numbered 331 in 1996 and by 2004,eight years later, 75% of them had disappeared.

他取样了一组对冲基金,是1996年的331支,到8年后的2004年,其中的75%都消失了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So remember last time I put up the article by the Crimson that was unfortunately I couldn't find ? a more recent one-- that was 2004?

记得上次,我提出的《哈佛克里姆森》杂志里的文章,很可惜我找不到,更近期一点的，那是2004年的？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

A group called the League of Pastoral Peoples says 50,000 camels were brought to the fair in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

And in 2004, it was twenty-one and a half.

在2004,是21.5

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But in 2004, after years of studying cancer, Anita Roberts learned that she herself had the disease.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

I think it's a remarkable dynamic that Mark started this company in 2004 and that first generation the first nine or ten years of the Internet did not have a Facebook-like company that was thinking through it in a simple way.

我认为马克在2004年开办的这个公司的影响巨大,因为互联网初期的那代人用了九、十年,都没能创办一家像脸谱网一样的公司,能用简单的思维考虑问题。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

The park opened in 2004, after almost 9 years of costly work.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

One 2004 inquiry into the intelligence used to justify the war cleared government ministers of wrongdoing, but criticized the intelligence used.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Kvit says Ukrainians today openly discuss and express everything, which is the main achievement of the [popular 2004 protest Orange Revolution.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Mr.Wen said trade has soared in modern times, more than tripling between 2004 and last year, when it topped $132 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

And a quake and tsunami off Aceh in 2004 led to more than 200,000 deaths around the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

A civil rights group, the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit in 2004 to have the photographs released.

VOA: standard.2009.05.13

"Since 2004 we have been working closely with international agencies to gather intelligence to overcome any potential terrorism act."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Other officials point to the several alarms sounded about preparations before the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece, which were staged successfully.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Government reports also say the number of domestic car recalls doubled between 2004 and 2008,compared with the previous five years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Most of that is coming from Vietnam. The highest year that the US shipped rice, over these last 10 years,was in 2004;

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

A United Nations peacekeeping force has helped return stability to the country after a rebellion in 2004, but economic progress remains slow.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

For his part, President Vazquez who has headed Uruguay's center-left government since 2004 refrained from any direct mention of Venezuela's arms purchases.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Since the insurgency flared up in 2004, there have been almost daily bombings and attacks, mostly against civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Meanwhile,the Justice Department released a declassified CIA report from 2004 detailing past interrogations of terror suspects and the techniques that were used.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Turkey does not recognize the south. The island joined the European Union in 2004, but only the Greek Cypriots enjoy membership benefits.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The Kaesong complex is an experiment in North-South cooperation which opened for business in 2004 just inside North Korea's border with the South.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

But not so. About 62,000 new motor homes rolled out of dealerships in 2004, but just one-third that many were sold last year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Violence connected to the conflicts in the Caucasus has also erupted in other parts of Russia, including the Moscow subway attacks in 2004.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

A 2004 peace accord restored order in Casamance and led to hopes that the region might once again become a valuable tourist destination.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

According to the Ministry of Health, the Asian Tsunami in 2004 swept away or damaged almost two-thirds of health clinics in one Indonesian province.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

And from countrymen who only five years ago survived the worst natural disaster to hit the world in decades, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

More than 200,000 people died in the 2004 tsunami, the vast majority of them in Aceh.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

James Tomsheck, who is with the U.S.Customs and Border Protection's Office of Internal Affairs, told Senator Mark Pryor that since October 2004, on corruption charges.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11