About six years ago,the U.S., Russia,China,South Korea and Japan began trying to persuade North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons in exchange for diplomatic and economic benefits.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

The professor said it probably died at an early age, living only about five or six years.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

He started writing in eighteen seventy-six, but put the story away after about two years of work.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

It fact,the team of archeologists first thought it was about six or seven hundred years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

When the city was founded about one thousand six hundred years ago, the level of the Adriatic Sea was almost two meters lower than it is today.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

"Historically, during our last two recessions in ninety-one and two thousand one it's taken twenty-three months in ninety-one and about thirty-six months, three years,in our last recession in two thousand one for the United States to regain the jobs lost in the recession."

VOA: special.2009.11.06

That's about one in six people of today's population compared with a marginally better one in seven 10 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

After spending six years practicing psychiatry for the U.S.military in both Washington and Texas, he was about to be deployed to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"I went over to Africa as a socialist, and after about five or six years of hitting my head against the wall, became a small "c" capitalist."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

The UN health agencies say it could cost about $39 billion over the next six years to scale up the recommended measures in the 68 high-risk developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"I actually got stuck in a gondola with him. And he was telling me about his experience and how he spent maybe the first five or six years of his career just crashing into fences and blowing up until he finally figured out how to make it all work."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09