So,just being able to pick one of those up will help our visitors understand how difficult portability was about thirty years ago."

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Sixty-two years ago most of the remains were dug up and shipped back to China for reburial.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

The questions the play brings up are as fresh today as they were fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

From a cave room you can see far up and down the canyon and imagine what life was like there seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

A businessman named Nathan Burrell and some of his colleagues came up with the idea during a business trip to Agogo three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

"About eight years ago, a good friend of mine called me up.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Ahlu-Sunna Wal-Jamaa took up arms against al-Shabab more than a year ago, after al-Shabab militants desecrated the graves of revered Sufi clerics.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Eight years ago he gave up his job to pursue origami, making him one of the few professional origami artists in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"Because we asked, and other parties asked, three years ago three and a half years ago for the setting up of the Iraq Inquiry."

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

But at least it's going in the right direction. December is generally better than a year ago, but at least the trend starts to go up.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Three years ago a group of interfaith activists began to hold monthly vigils at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington to speak up for the people of Darfur.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

Two years ago, international donors put up money to drill a well.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

But six months ago, NATO set up a new command for training the police, and its officials say they are working to eradicate the culture of corruption and ill-discipline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Three hundred fifty actors and re-enactors are creating the British military presence in town - setting up camp and harassing the colonists, to recreate the atmosphere of 200 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03