We leave you now with some examples, which we have strung together like beads of sound.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

For example, she says a group of students who met in her classes now get together two times a week to talk and to bead.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Now investigators have been working to piece together a complete picture of Faisal Shahzad.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Calhoun said it was clear now to everyone that the Union was breaking apart, that the ties that had held the North and South together were breaking,one by one.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The director may have said, "Calm down,now.Get your act together."

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Now,a new study suggests that several viruses may act together.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

"It's a tremendously complex patchwork of initiatives that are now being sewn together by Western military commanders and Afghan political figures,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

We worked as our fathers did,". Now,the farmers plant their crops closer together and run water through narrow trenches.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

You can see I am only starting to get my life together now, and that's out of the sex trade;

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

He said Americans now facing grave problems need to work together, tap their inner resolve, and seek progress one step at a time.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

The Iraqi parliament,until now, has failed in attempts to cobble together a bill over oil revenues that would satisfy both Kurds and Arabs.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

The ministry of information is now focusing on putting together a Freedom of Information act.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Higher Grounds Caf, in West Hills,California, started with 10 students, and now has 50 members working together to sell fair trade, certified organic tea, coffee and cocoa grown by farmers in Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04