This was because of efforts by Patrick Leahy, a senator who has represented Vermont for more than 30 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

He was Robert E.Lee. Lee was a Virginian and had served in the United States army for more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

People moved into the American Southwest more than ten thousand years ago as the last ice age was ending.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

More than one hundred years after her birth, Ayn Rand's books,thoughts, and actions continue to be important to many people.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Scientists know that some of the Bristlecone pines in northern California are also more than four thousand years old.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Another new member of the Hall of Fame has been fighting to help victims of abuse for more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

It has been more than two years since he has been to a hospital emergency room because of asthma.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

For more than thirty years, the Aprovecho Research Center has been designing cleaner, low-cost cooking stoves for the developing world.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

It is the result of more than twenty years of research and ten years of clinical testing.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

And French President Nicholas Sarkozy has decided to return France to NATO's military command for the first time in more than forty years.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Its power was crushed. It would be more than forty years before America's steelworkers were organized again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Critics also noted an e-mail written more than ten years ago by Professor Jones of the C.R.U.

VOA: special.2010.01.19