He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

A few years later, a settler named Abijah Long also found the entrance and went into the cavern.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Professor Kaufman says it could take the slow-growing coral as long as one hundred years to recover.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

But she says the research does show the need to study whether or not there are long-lasting effects of repeated exposure over several years.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

He says the final goal of the work is to develop a long-term plan to operate and protect the tomb for years to come.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

But the most common cause is long-term smoking or years of breathing other people's smoke.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

But even with all the progress, there is still a long way to go to reach all eight goals approved by world leaders ten years ago.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Long-period comets,however, may take several hundred years to orbit the sun.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Officials say the improvements could take as long as two years.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

And the long-awaited Airbus A400M, a military cargo plane, is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The election was held to replace long-time president Omar Bongo, who died in June after 42 years in power.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Britain has a long history of deep involvement in not only Iran, but across the Middle East during the past 200 years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The most common cause of COPD is long-term smoking or years of exposure to second-hand smoke.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Eight years after the end of a decade-long civil war, people will talk publicly for the first time of atrocities committed in their communities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Nation building,he says, is a long-term process and 10 years is just the beginning.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Others last for months or even years. There is no clear way of predicting at the present time how long this activity might go on for."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

(Speech) The former Czech Republic president said the changes in 1989 were "undoubtedly aided by people who,for long years" tried to show the world "the real situation" in what was then Czechoslovakia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

In Lebanon, which has known long periods of instability in recent years, Paul Haidostian, who is the president of Haigazian University, believes that Mr.Obama's Nobel is a step in the right direction and is a positive omen for the future.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09