But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier - the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Professor Burgess says the first ten years of the twenty-first century are expected to register the most attacks of any ten-year period.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer have agreed to provide thirty million doses of the vaccine each year for ten years.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

"Why would you want a plastic that you use for a year to last for two hundred years?

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Students cannot return to the United States for two years after they finish their year of study.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

I'm 48 years old. In the New Year, I just hope things start to get right again.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The events this year could cost more than the record 42 million dollars spent 4 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

That was down from last year, but still about twenty-five percent more than ten years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Others who want to graduate in three years must pay for the same education as four-year students, but in a shorter period of time.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

The measure calls for one and a half billion dollars a year for five years.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

That was the year Mexicans got their independence after years of revolt against Spanish rule.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Americans who attend these four-year colleges must serve at least five years of active duty.

VOA: special.2009.06.04