His first years in the United States were difficult, like those of most immigrants at that time.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Monsanto expects to be ready in 4 years to market its first corn seeds genetically engineered to resist drought.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

But her trip to Japan,Indonesia,South Korea and China makes her the first in almost fifty years to visit Asia first.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Monsanto expects to be ready in a few years to market its first corn seeds genetically engineered to resist drought.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

He made his own breakfast for the first time in many years, he was still angry with his father.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Professor Burgess says the first ten years of the twenty-first century are expected to register the most attacks of any ten-year period.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

The study found that smokers who quit had a seventy percent increased risk of developing the disease in the first six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10