Only a few years before, millions of buffalo lived on the Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

His record was first broken only a few years after his death.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Their marriage lasted only a few years.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

She was named after her father's only brother, who died a few years before she was born.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It is exciting to stand only a few meters away and watch scientists clean the asphalt off a fossil that is thousands of years old.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

He went to school only for a few years.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

And a few years after that, somebody shothis little brother, too, only he wasin a hotel kitchen.

VOA: standard.other

He said he never takes any option off the table, but that such a move would only delay Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12