The seeds take two years to sprout up through the ground.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Such a trip could take two hundred days to complete.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

If,in the best-case scenario, that may only take two to three months.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Take the example of Facebook. It was launched in two thousand four as a social network just for Harvard students.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

At least nineteen of the fifty American states are planning to take part in the two thousand ten Earth Hour observance.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The workers were provided with medical care and two emergency vehicles to take them to a new hospital in Boulder City.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Two teams take turns pushing stones weighing almost twenty kilograms towards a circular target drawn on the ice.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

They were more than two-thirds of the way to the moon on a flight path that would take them to a moon landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

It can take from twenty minutes to more than two hours for them all to leave.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

So in two thousand three the day was renamed Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work.

VOA: special.2010.04.30