Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Colonel Parker made sure that songs Elvis had recorded earlier were released during the years he was in the army.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier - the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Studies show that some American Robins are appearing in their nesting areas two weeks earlier than thirty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Some years earlier, he had asked several people to invest in a gold mine he had in Death Valley.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

A group of more than one hundred Englishmen had arrived two years earlier, in fifteen eighty-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

He shot himself to death in nineteen sixty-one, just as his father had years earlier.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

In an earlier study, seven thousand people were observed for an average of seven years.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Some senators said there had not been such a crowd in the capitol building since the day Clay said goodbye to the Senate eight years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

"Perhaps most important,though, we can now field initial elements of the system to protect our forces in Europe and our allies roughly six to seven years earlier than the previous plan a fact made more relevant by continued delaysin the Czech and Polish ratification processes that have caused repeated slips in the timeline,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.17