But two comedians could still be friends -- or at least friendly enough to perform together.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

But two facts made the celebrations less joyful than they might have been.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

But two tragedies happened to Neal and Dahl in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2011.02.27

But two of the nine Supreme Court judges opposed this ruling.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

But two large Confederate forces broke the Union attack.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

But two of her four children live locally.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

In nine Olympic Games since ice dancing debuted in 1976, but two golds have gone to Russian, Soviet or Russian-based teams.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

I didn't know about snow." But two years later, Boit was at the Winter Olympics in Nagano,Japan.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

The secular,Shi'ite-Sunni bloc led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi took the most seats, but two more overtly Shi'ite groups are said to be close to forming a ruling coalition.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

To put it mildly, the group of friends I've had over the years and ran around together with, it was originally seven of us and the healthcare system in the United States has killed us all but two,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

Authorities say they quickly killed two of the gunmen, but two others continued to fire machine guns in the extended battle in Pul-i-Alam, Witnesses say U.S.military helicopters were part of the response force, and one aircraft fired a rocket into a multi-story building which the insurgents had seized, used to launch their attack and had rigged with explosives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

But even in two thousand two, fewer than eleven percent of patents were awarded to women in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

The city's population grew between two thousand and two thousand seven, but not as fast as the country as a whole.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

But last week, two teams working independently reported a discovery that could help lead to a universal flu vaccine.

VOA: special.2009.03.04