Locals joke that Yemeni trees are actually blue and red, the color of the plastic bags that you get when you buy qat, a mildly narcotic leaf, and the Yemeni national past time.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

She says the government has provided books for her school only one time during the past few years.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

At one time in the past, my brother had been in love with this woman.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

But the wait time has increased again over the past year.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

She had no time to think about the past.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The time for restating well known positions is past.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

This time,he planned to sail his men past Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The Japanese government bailed out the airline three times in the past 10 years, but it could not save the company from bankruptcy this time around.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Now it's high time that we divert from the past or from the notion of liberating the country onto other important things in the economy and education,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

The time for re-stating well known positions is past,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

President Obama is said to have stated that, while the past must be understood, he is not there to argue history - and that it is time to "move on" to confront today's challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

As in other cases during the past few years, average travelers are now the ones paying the price by spending even more time in international airport terminals and undergoing increased screening, while security officials attempt to figure out just went wrong and who was responsible.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28