Eight-sixty-one Jasmine Street had been a fine house once, but now it was old and dying.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Now, new measurements show that our Milky Way galaxy is bigger than scientists once thought.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Three churches, once united across the nation, now were split between North and South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

But Americans now get married at an older age than they once did.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

His once mighty army now had less than fifty thousand men.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

But there was once, and I'm caring now,for her sake."

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Now,once again, the moon was beyond human reach.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Now,small trees dot the once barren schoolyard of a village elementary school, along with special trash cans for biodegradable waste.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Yet now,she says, people once again are faced with extensive crop losses and the loss of cattle from drowning.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Once called the Indians, Dartmouth College's teams are now the Big Green.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The cleric,Anwar al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, once taught at a mosque in Virginia that Hasan attended and is well-known among violent Islamists, according to terrorism expert and author Evan Kohlmann.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Once common in Europe and the United States, cases of obstetric fistula now occur almost entirely in the developing world where poor nutrition and girls giving birth before their pelvis is fully developed contribute to the risks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23