The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

And the Commerce Department reported that economic growth at the end of two thousand nine was the fastest in six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

In South Korea, President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak discussed a free trade agreement signed by their governments two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

During his eighteen years in the major leagues, Clemente won many awards and helped his team win two World Series championships.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Ten years later,in nineteen seventy-two, an engineer named Nolan Bushnell and a programmer,Ted Dabney, started the Atari company in California.

VOA: special.2011.02.23

(OMITTED) In the past few years, Thai Freedom House has taught English, Thai and art to about two hundred children.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

And some lower-paying jobs require only two years of college, or even a technical education program in high school.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

In two thousand two the group had suggested such screening tests every one to two years for women forty and older.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

They had three children and were together for nearly sixty-five years, until Betsy died in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The company is said to have never broken its contract with the government in its two and a half years of operation.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And,he was right. John F.Kennedy became president in nineteen sixty-one and served until his murder two years later.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

"I brought in two mountain bikes that my wife and I have ridden for the past ten years.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Some of her best work was written in the four years between eighteen fifty-eight and eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

And he says his team has already identified two trillion dollars in reductions to help cut the deficit in half within four years.

VOA: special.2009.02.27