It would be a rare-face-to-face encounter between diplomats of the two countries, which have not had formal relations in 30 years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

a statistic that has not changed in 30 years.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

"I was finishing my last semester of law school, so,I guess, check back with me in 30 years and see if he's a litigator, because he would definitely come alive in my corporations classes and he always heard my professors speaking."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

He was given a 40-year sentence in 1992, which was later reduced to 30 years on appeal and further reduced to 17 years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

In the 20th century, life expectancy in wealthy nations increased by as much as 30 years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

A combination vaccine, using strains of HIV common in Thailand,was tested on Thai men and women aged 18 to 30 years old, who were HIV-negative.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

In the last 20 or 30 years there have been a couple more specimens.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

They said Walter Myers worked at the State Department for nearly 30 years, partly at the department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, before retiring in 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

"I have been in Washington for maybe 30 years, and I think this is probably one of the biggest storms, maybe the biggest we have ever had."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

ERRC Programmes Coordinator Tara Bedard has told VOA News there have been dozens of attacks against the approximately "There's been 30 attacks in the last two years.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

Turning the Page for us refers to the HIV prevention research world really entering a new period in its activity, That new period comes 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

Storm frequency,he says, comes in cycles of 30 years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

The ONLF has been fighting for greater autonomy or independence for the Ogaden since Ethiopia seized the mostly Somali speaking region in a war with Somalia more than 30 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"You have to talk to them." They especially want answers about then Cardinal Ratzinger and his involvement in the transfer of a priest who abused some 200 deaf American children 30 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"The prediction is that in the next 20 years to 30 years, if the situation continues to get worse, the productivity from the agricultural sector and from subsistence farming in Africa, the production would reduce by as much as 50 percent,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Indeed,volatile food prices, population growth, low agricultural productivity and the potentially devastating effects of climate change make it a particularly daunting challenge. The IFAD president says over the past 30 years, agricultural productivity in developing countries has been stagnant or in decline. He blames it on years of under-investment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29