Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country's most successful basketball programs.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

Five years earlier, another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The Global Heritage Fund says over seventy percent of the environment in this area has been lost in the past ten years.

VOA: special.2010.11.03

Also,a valuable record of thousands of years of weather history will also be lost if the ice melts.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Democrat Grover Cleveland -- who had lost to Harrison four years earlier -- would be president again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Indonesia is said to have lost almost half its mangroves forests within the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Children are particularly vulnerable to the hurt caused by discrimination and prejudice and we have lost many young people over the years to suicide.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

Over the next two years, beekeepers lost more than one-third of their honey bees.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

"I'm saying that this money, this opportunity that could be lost if it's not used will not happen to you again for another ten years,ten years.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Within a few years, the national grange had lost most of its members.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Burma,also known as Myanmar, has lost many valuable mangrove trees in recent years.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

She lost that election, and another election two years later.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Over the next several years, many Americans lost their jobs.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

"Historically, during our last two recessions in ninety-one and two thousand one it's taken twenty-three months in ninety-one and about thirty-six months, three years,in our last recession in two thousand one for the United States to regain the jobs lost in the recession."

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Washington wanted to find out how many years are lost with these lifestyle choices.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

U.S.states where more people said they got no physical exercise outside work lost more quality adjusted life years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"Over the past two years, the American people have lost about This carries a painful toll,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Perhaps getting lost in neighborhoods where your loved one has lived for a number of years,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

A conflict the U.S.fought and lost some 40 years ago has come back to haunt a young president, his advisors,his generals, and the country he governs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The automaker has lost more than $80 billion during the last four years.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Black women,in particular, had higher rates of obesity throughout the 16 years studied, and they paid the biggest price in terms of quality-adjusted years of life lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The RDP was formed two years ago after its leader, Hidipo Hamutenya, lost his bid to become SWAPO leader upon the retirement of Namibia's first president, Sam Nujoma.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Gardere says it will take at least four years to recoup his losses, but he is quick to point out that Barbancourt lost more than just business in the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

"In terms of the burden of disease, it increased for everyone, but in particular it was black women who had 31 percent more in 2008 quality-adjusted life years lost compared to black men.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"When I found a medieval abbey in France that said they had been baking for 1300 years, but had lost the last monk who knew how to bake bread, I volunteered to come over and bake some bread for them.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16