And it was difficult. Mainly that was because few good roads for driving existed.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Yet he tells us Covestor remains a private company after a few years because it is still too risky for most investors.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

Doctors say not to return to physical activity for a few hours because serious conditions could develop.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

The mass killing of sharks continues because very few countries have rules to protect the creatures.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

He says the team he works on got interested in studying energy drinks because of the explosion in their popularity in the last few years.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

He had few struggles with Congress, because he rarely asked Congress to do anything.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

"Once you get noticed by a company, it gets a lot easier, but it's so hard to get noticed because there's so many people looking for so few jobs."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

"We want to find new inhabitants of Venice because Venice is going to be a Disneyland in a few years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The country now only offers loans. Abe says the government must act quickly because she says the problem will only get worse, in the next few years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

John Freeman took that gamble a few years ago. The 62-year-old retired computer analyst dropped his health care insurance because the high monthly premiums and a huge deductible were eating up his retirement savings.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"The challenge right now is that our emergency pre-positioned supplies were running quite low because the response in West Java was in progress still and that quake had just happened a few weeks ago,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Nash says this training will be especially important because Iraqi forces will handle security during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in a few weeks, and parliamentary elections slated for January.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

"There is a sense that when the political leaders arrive in the next few days, that they will be able to overcome some of the stumbling blocks, because I believe the leaders will be able to really grab this issue by the scruff of the neck and get down to the substance and bridge the remaining gaps,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.17