There had been elections in most of the northern and southern states.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

DAVID FAULKNER: "For many years, there had been an active campaign against segregated baseball led by Negro newspaper editors and,strangely enough,by the Communist party, which from the middle nineteen thirties on, had actively campaigned against segregated baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

The body said during the weekend there had been a breach of confidentiality and apologized for treating the matter insensitively.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

There had been indications that the two might meet during the Obama family vacation in Martha's Vineyard.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

John Koldowski is spokesman for the Pacific Asia Travel Association says there had been hope the region's travel industry would begin to recover from the economic slump late this year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

In a recent broadcast, al-Alam TV alleged, without any independent evidence, there had been a coup attempt in Saudi Arabia and that Prince Bandar, the son of Crown Prince Sultan, was under arrest.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Scientist Cecil Lewis said the human DNA could have been there because people had had contact with the bone.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

There were no great surprises that night because the winners of the awards had been announced three months earlier.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

The Union army there had just been defeated in a battle along a little river called the Chickamauga.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

But among those remaining was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Some senators said there had not been such a crowd in the capitol building since the day Clay said goodbye to the Senate eight years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It was the first time he had been there in more than fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

A tomb had been built there for America's first President, George Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.07