Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

The designers suggest that rickshaw pullers could repay a loan to buy a Soleckshaw within about two or three years.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

He says he first heard about social media two or three years ago at a business meeting.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In the winter months, it is falling by about three percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

The twenty mummies were about two thousand to three thousand five hundred years old.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

The project required about one thousand laborers and lasted three years.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

"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

If all goes well, scientists hope Herschel will be working for three years, and the Planck telescope for about 15 months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

(Speaking in Russian) Arutyunov says nationalism receded somewhat about three or four years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"We don't want to come here two years later, three years later,or four year later to again talk about the extremism,terrorism, drugs,and so on and so forth,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

Everything about how it was two, three hundred years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

A joint EU-IMF aid package for Greece is put at $60 billion, but some European officials said Wednesday the full cost could be much higher, reaching about $160 billion over three years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Other companies such as Suzuki,Nissan, Toyota,and Honda have already announced plans to spend about $5 billion to make small cars in India or increase production at their existing plants over the next three years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25