The risks were highest in the first three years.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

that 'we tried initially, during the first three years of Gorbachev's tenure, to improve the system accelerate it but keep it intact.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

In two-thousand three, American William Ruddiman first proposed that global warming resulted from human activities thousands of years ago.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

The prize in economic sciences has gone to sixty-three men since it was first awarded forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

It was the first of more than twelve top hits for Little Richard over the next three years.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Girls are advised to begin testing within three years of when they first have sex, or in any case no later than twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Researchers at Mohammed the First University in Oujda,Morocco, tested the Waterboxx for three years in the Sahara.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

He says he first heard about social media two or three years ago at a business meeting.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

His three-point, lap and shoulder seat belt first appeared on cars in Europe fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Two years later she won the Western Open for the first of her three major titles.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

It was nineteen thirty-three. Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was "back in the black with its first profit in three years."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

It is also no accident that this play about a Scottish king was written a few years after James the First became King of England in sixteen-oh-three.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

That was the first three-month increase in three years.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The new loans are double what China pledged at the first Forum on China Africa Cooperation three years ago in Beijing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

General Motors earned its first quarterly profit in three years, with $865 million in net income, Reported in May.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Released in 1955, it was the first of more than a dozen Top 10 R&B hits Richard collected over the next three years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

Market experts say next year India is likely to try to import three million tons of rice tapping the world market for the first time in 21 years because of a drought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17