In September,the United Nations said the estimated number of deaths of children under age five had dropped from the previous year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Government reports also say the number of domestic car recalls doubled between 2004 and 2008,compared with the previous five years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Defense Intelligence Agency Director General Michael Maples noted Taliban attacks in 2008 were up by 55 percent over the previous year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The recording notes that the Obama administration includes key figures from the previous Bush administration, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Secretary Gates said the new plan will allow flexibility and put in place a defense system more quickly than the previous proposal.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

At the previous conference, President Karzai pledged a commitment to improve security,governance and economic opportunities for Afghans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

(Speech) He says they won because voters believed they could achieve what the previous administration could not.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

He said he has more confidence in Mr.Zardari than in the previous Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

Some politicians claimed the United States had abandoned the region in order to repair relations with Russia, which strongly opposed the previous missile plan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But just released EU statistics show the economy plummeted nearly ten percent in the first quarter of 2009, compared to the previous three months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

To sort out the confusion, Hashibe and her colleagues used statistical techniques to, in effect,make one big study out of the previous smaller studies.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Lieberman said the new government is not prepared for the same concessions as the previous one.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

He stressed the same process was used under the previous administration of President George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

The private sector added more than better than the previous month, but not enough to offset the loss of more than 200,000 temporary census jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02