But there have also been efforts to bridge the differences between religious belief and evolutionary science in recent years.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

But he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

American housing sales,though, have improved in recent months, helped by lower prices and a tax credit for first-time buyers.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The Justice Department says rates in recent years fell to levels last seen in the middle of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

In recent years the international community has deployed navy ships to guard the area in an effort to fight piracy.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Yet the International Shark Attack File reports that the number of shark attacks has, in fact,decreased in recent years.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

But Arctic air has damaged some Florida oranges and strawberries in recent days, and killed fish at tropical fish farms.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on and even off -- the Gulf coast.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

In recent days, Americans have lost two civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Magazines in recent years have listed Santa Fe among the best places to live in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Several popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feeling, broke the hearts of their lovers.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

But it said foreign language teaching in public elementary and middle schools dropped sharply in recent years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04