BP has already spent more than a billion dollars on the clean-up operation.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

Opponents have already spent millions of dollars on television ads aimed at whipping up grass-roots opposition to the Obama plan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

U.N.officials estimated up to 200,000 people may have already fled the fighting and perhaps 300,000 more could leave in the coming days.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

It's 9 A.M.in city courtroom 676 and already a crowd of people facing foreclosure have lined up for a chance to keep their homes.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

But Airbus has already exceeded those expectations, leaving America's Boeing racing to catch up.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

BP has already spent over $1 billion on the clean-up operation .

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

There is so much interest in the book that Professor Ruffin says his new class is already at work on a follow-up book that will include creative writing by inmates and various kinds of art work as well.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21