The "girl" in all these books is Lisbeth Salander, an independent young woman with a very dark and secretive past.

VOA: special.2010.08.18

Mister Leakey believed that learning more about these animals could help explain the evolutionary past of humans.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

These documents from the Army and Marine Corps included secret reports from the past six years.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

So studying the organisms in these oxygen-free caves gives clues about the past.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

In these therapies, patients might talk with a therapist about the past.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

She has been crying much these past few days,John Carter.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

"In these past 60 years, NATO has contributed to an unprecedented period of peace, freedom and prosperity for all its citizens.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

She says these groups have been operating since 2008 and many of the militants had served prison sentences for past terrorist activities.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

"It is very difficult to really pin down and there have been these sorts of accusations from the Revolutionary Guards in the past."

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

In the past 45 years, the World Health Organization says suicide rates have increased by 60 percent worldwide and it predicts these deaths will rise to 1.5 million by 2020.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

You know,these cemeteries are really, really symbols of our past.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"Zimbabwe has gone through processes of announcing national union and reconciliation in the past and these processes have all been geared towards providing impunity and allowing perpetrators to go scot-free,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

"The fact that tissue was preserved for more than a few decades helps us to learn more about past disease and actually eventually help to avoid these kinds of diseases in the future."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"More and more, there are actually people aware of the fact if we want to know more about medicine or actually how to treat patients with all these health care issues, we have to look to the past as well."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"I have every belief that when he finishes his speech tomorrow, the American people will be able to put aside some of the ridiculous falsehoods that have been perpetrated these past few weeks, and focus on what we are going to do that is positive for this country,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.08