As he walked out, he told a friend, "I think I can already smell the fresh mountain air of my home in Tennessee."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

But already this year, pirates have carried out more than eighty-four attacks in the waters of the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Officials say two-thirds of them have been bought and 11 of the 64 matches have already been sold out.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

"So when I came out of the Army, I had already decided I wanted to be a part of breaking down segregation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

That means the people of quaint Cape May,New Jersey, may already be busy, airing out their sumptuous homes in preparation for the annual rush of beach-loving guests.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

He's already at work on his next album, due out in October.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"This is a very important event." "And it's actually following the guidance that WHO already gave out where we suggested that countries should actually stop using antibiotics as growth promoters."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Economists point out that the current jobless rate is already higher than the hypothetical rate that was used to calculate the health of banks and other financial institutions in so-called "stress tests" earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

Financial problems and voter registration issues, particularly issues of nationality and voter eligibility, have already prompted Ivory Coast to push back the election several times since current President Gbagbo's mandate ran out in October 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Already the region's poorest country, Haiti was battered by four successive hurricanes last year that wiped out about 15 percent of the country's economic output and further damaged roads and other elements of an already weak infrastructure.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Peter Pham, Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Political Science and Africana Studies at James Madison University, says conditions in Somalia threaten security and stability of the Horn of Africa: "Even without toppling the TFG, al-Shabaab has already achieved a major objective by securing a territorial base from which like-minded militants and terrorists can carry out attacks elsewhere, especially against targets in the Arabian Peninsula as well as participating in the current violence against Somalis,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.26