"You have had a decade or more in Africa of very slow economic progress in the nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Dr.Anond Snidvongs, who has studied climate change for more than a decade, has analyzed storm data over the past 60 years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Dr. William Abraham of Ohio State University "It has been a decade since we have seen a trial this positive."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

The last major disruption to European aviation followed the September 11 attacks in the United States almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Chuo University Professor Stephen Reed says the DPJ is a stronger party than it was a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

It is the same disease that caused the death a decade ago of former star National Football League running back Walter Payton.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Since the federal law was passed a decade ago, many state and local communities have followed suit.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

They are coming in when they are symptomatic, which is usually after a decade of infection.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Phyu Phyu Aye,a Burmese refugee who's lived in the United States for a decade,teaches sewing, but also advises her students on many cultural issues.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Now there are about 41 million. This year alone China is set to sell about 11 million cars, of cars sold a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

The moon landing was seen as the high point of a U.S.space program fueled by a decade-long space race with the former Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

The senator is the first U.S.member of Congress to visit Burma in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Dr.Welch stopped smoking more than a decade ago, and he persuaded his son to quit also.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Even after a decade-long decline in illegal logging,Ritter says, there's still a long way to go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

People who lived through the events of that day say that nearly a decade later, they are worried that the tragedy is slowly being forgotten.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

She bought it after living alone in an apartment for more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

"For too long,for a decade or more, there has been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

the rate has dropped to 83 per 1,000,down sharply from 124 a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

University-level research papers, she says,are now being peppered with casual phrases like "you know" and words like "guy" informal usages that were absent almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Mr.Toure recognized those who had worked on the legislation and assured them that this new code, nearly a decade in the making, was not being abandoned entirely.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

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

a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and for a decade he's been posting gorgeous photographs of snowflakes and a lot more on his website, SnowCrystals.com.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19