Three days before his death, he joined volunteers at his yearly event to give toys to needy children in Augusta,Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Credit card companies will have to inform cardholders forty-five days before they raise interest rates or change other important terms.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

That was just three days before his term ended and James Polk moved into the White House as the nation's eleventh president.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

In fact,the question happened to arrive just a few days before the pop star died on June twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

He attempts the dangerous plot just three days before she is to be sent to a high-security prison.

VOA: special.2010.12.13

Also,companies will have to send out billing statements at least twenty-one days before a payment is owed.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

In fact,he did not express support for the Democratic candidate until a few days before the election.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

In the final days before the vote, six of the seven remaining Republican senators let it be known that they would vote not guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

In the days before her death, Aasiya Hassan had taken legal steps to divorce her husband.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Michele Obama celebrates her 45th birthday Saturday, just 3 days before she becomes America's First Lady.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Churches in France do not ring their bells on the two days before Easter Sunday.

VOA: special.2011.04.22

Only a few days before Cleveland's second inauguration in eighteen ninety-three, a major railroad failed.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Two days before the vote was taken, violence broke out in the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Stop pinching about one hundred days before you want the plants to bloom.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

That was just two days before the death of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Ten days before he sailed, his daughter Eleanor Dare had a baby girl.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Lincoln arrived in Washington nine days before his inauguration.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Under the law they have to wait three days before the court will issue them a marriage license.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

The latest Taliban violence occurred 10 days before Afghanistan is set to go to the polls.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Speaking by telephone, district police chief Usman Anwar told VOA his men watched activities of the suspects for nearly two days before arresting them.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

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

Havens remembers hovering high above that city of youth massed in what days before had been a peaceful cow pasture, and being awed by the size and the power of the gathering.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

"The legislation was announced two days before President Obama hosts Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, to discuss strategies for ending violence along their two countries' common border.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

While snow has brought smiles to the faces of children who have dusted off their sleds for the new season,for others, this cold snap just days before the Christmas break, has brought frustration.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

We are going to get there the day before the games start two days before. And it's all about building, and getting better every game and that is how the team is going to win.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12