More than one billion eight hundred million vehicles have used the bridge since it opened more than seventy years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

I've never understood that myself since we outnumber the men in actual numbers, and we live five years longer.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

It has been more than two years since he has been to a hospital emergency room because of asthma.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

The competition was first held in two thousand two and has taken place every two years since two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Then, almost two years since announcing his candidacy for America's highest office, Mr. Obama began the work of president.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

It has been about forty years since the United States Food and Drug Administration approved a drug especially for treating lupus.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

More than six hundred fifty million people have visited the Mall of America since it opened eighteen years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Since its beginnings sixty years ago, four hundred ninety-four criminals have been placed on the "Top Ten List."

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

A new study says women's rights have gained some ground in Arab Gulf states since a similar study completed five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The prize in economic sciences has gone to sixty-three men since it was first awarded forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

This September eleventh will be nine years since the al-Qaida terrorist attacks on the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

In the close to forty years since, no one has set foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28