Europeans started to copy the fine traditions of Japanese and Chinese ceramics as early as the eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

But word expert Charles Funk says that early writer could not explain where the name started.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Like many performers of his time, he started in vaudeville in the early nineteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Mister McMahon's grandfather,Jess, started the company under a different name in the early nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

In the Philippines, people started listening to it in the early nineteen eighties.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Todd Lodwick says his love for Nordic combined started early, when he was part of the Buddy Werner "Little Toots" ski program.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Analysts say that Iran was particularly incensed about the new British Broadcasting Corporation's Persian language TV station that was started early this year.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

When he moved to California in the early-1940s, Les started experimenting with electronics for guitar.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

The Philippine Coast Guard says it received a distress call from Superferry 9 early Sunday morning local time, when the ship started listing to its starboard side.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Reports by the ethnic Karen National Union in some other areas [as well say attacks by the Burmese military started in early July in the northern Karen state of that borders Thailand.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

When Honduras scored in only the fifth minute of play, U.S.Men's Soccer captain Carlos Bocanegra admits it started to look similar to the recent loss to Costa Rica, which also scored early in that game.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07