Some students work for a year or two in a medical or research job before they attempt to enter medical school.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Just before the first of the year, a congressman asked the president if he still planned to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

It really began with the death of the Bank of the United States more than a year before.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The country had suffered a serious economic depression the year before, and jobs were difficult to find.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The year before,he first played with the United States National Team in a victory over Costa Rica.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

He died in a car accident in nineteen fifty-five before the movie was released the next year.

VOA: special.2011.04.03

That was where the Union army had lost a battle to the Confederates one year before.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

In the year and a half before the ban, hospitals had 399 admissions for heart attacks.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

"I'd lost a lot of championships before that year, so that was a special game."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The show ran for over a year, before traveling around the United States and Europe.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

But sales in the West increased by nineteen percent in March from a year before.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Students must have attended Mizzou for a year before they can receive a grant.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

They had met her at a shelter at a railway station the year before.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

The year before,southern troops sent a northern army fleeing from Bull Run.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

That was a decrease of ten percent from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

They burned the captured supplies. Then they moved a few kilometers away to a long, low hill just northwest of the Bull Run battleground, where southern forces defeated a northern army a year before.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

That same year, then President John F.Kennedy vowed in a speech before the U.S.Congress to put a man on the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Thursday in Bangkok, Marciel said they urged the Burmese to begin a dialogue with the opposition National League for Democracy before next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

A year ago around 90 percent did. Also,more women receive care before giving birth than ever before, and more midwives are present at births.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

President Obama and congressional Democrats want a health-care package approved before next year's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Days before the expiration of a four-year term as Fed chief, Bernanke faces growing opposition from Democratic and Republican senators who will vote on his reconfirmation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Democratic leaders have said they are committed to bringing the Iran sanctions bill to a vote before the House completes its legislative work for the year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28