Five years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published two government-financed studies of serious mistakes.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

But packaged foods have labels, and this is made possible because of government action taken some years ago.

但包装食品的食品标签可以告诉我们这些,这得益于几年前的政府措施

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The American-led invasion eight years ago removed the Taliban government that sheltered Osama bin Laden.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

The money will help to support projects approved by the government nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Mr.Ban credited the Afghan government for making advancements since the last major donor conference six months ago in London.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

President Obama says the big banks that were in critical condition a year ago do not need any new government help.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

This year has been the deadliest for foreign troops in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban government eight years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The government has cracked down very severely since the violence there some months ago against religious leaders and others of the Muslim faith."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Four years ago on International Women's Day, the Afghan government unveiled a plan for accelerating the improvement of women's status in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Carstairs also appealed to Afghanistan's government to reinstate Malalai Joya, who was suspended from parliament nearly two years ago for insulting the country's warlords.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

He retired more than a decade ago to become a Buddhist monk but the Japanese government brought him out of retirement to bring JAL out of bankruptcy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

This U.S.government-sponsored conference on pandemics was planned long ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Those comments echo earlier assessments by analysts here in Seoul, who say Kim Jong Il's apparent stroke about a year ago challenged perceptions of his complete command of the North's government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

The Global Political Agreement, signed one year ago by President Robert Mugabe and then-opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, led to the formation of the unity government with Mr.Tsvangirai named to the new post of prime minister.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The Israeli government angered and embarrassed the Obama administration a week ago when it announced, as Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel, that it will build 1,600 new Jewish housing units in mainly-Arab East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

In a VOA interview, Hailu admitted that many opposition supporters are suspicious of his seeming closeness and conciliatory attitude toward Prime Minister Meles, whose government convicted him of treason and sentenced him to life in prison three years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Abdi says that public perception could now give Somalia's beleaguered president an opportunity to erase the humiliation his government suffered six months ago, when it was forced to beg for troops from neighboring countries to keep the government from being toppled.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23