This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Many of the lakes around the Grand Tetons were formed millions of years ago by slow-moving sheets of ice.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The author says Lead Belly's contract with the Lomaxes' prevented him from being represented by anyone else for five years.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

He says looking back thousands of years can help researchers look forward by understanding how a disease changed over time.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

But by the time he was thirteen years old, he was winning against players two times his size and age.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

The current version of the law, signed by George W.Bush eight years ago,is known as the No Child Left Behind Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

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

It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

And,the World Health Organization says asthma rates are increasing worldwide by an average of fifty percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Scott Brown won a seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

He finished the book by writing at night during his two years of service in the United States Navy.

VOA: special.2009.03.15