They came down near Surveyor Three, an unmanned spacecraft that had landed on the moon two years before.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Two years before, the use of the Hawaiian language was banned in private and public schools.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

The Central Intelligence Agency held him there for two years before he arrived at Guantanamo.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

It will last about two years before the rubber pipes need to be replaced.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

He received a new liver less than two years before winning a snowboarding bronze medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Poe served in the Army for two years, before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point to become an officer.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

just before it dies. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this two thousand three hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Scott lived in these two places for almost four years before he was returned to Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Lincoln had served only two years in Congress before his election to the White House.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

He says before the rains failed more than two years ago, he had 400 goats and 20 camels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

And that is how, after two very difficult years, we will not only revive the economy, but help to rebuild it stronger than ever before."

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

Currently,they can be held seven days. And it would boost from 120 days to two years the time a suspect can be held before being brought to trial.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

"It may not be until maybe a year, or two years from now before we fully understand the impact of the deal-making that was done, in order to secure these voting blocs in places like Qandahar,Helmand, where the insurgency has really taken control, and where the government is the weakest and it has the weakest bargaining position."

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

General Myers spent four years as the top U.S.military officer, starting just weeks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, through the early successes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and ending in late 2005, just before the major outbreak of violence in Iraq and well before the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan during the last two years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16