The Cassatt family lived in Paris, France for about two years before moving to Heidelberg in modern day Germany.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

His historic performance took place ten years before black singer Marian Anderson performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

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

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Homestake operated as a gold mine for one hundred twenty-five years before closing about nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Its power was crushed. It would be more than forty years before America's steelworkers were organized again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

She had died so many years before him that local tradition noted very little of her existence.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Other men,also looking for gold, had reached the Stanislau hills of California many years before I did.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

She was named after her father's only brother, who died a few years before she was born.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Instead,it belonged to a tyrannosaurid species that lived many millions of years before its T.Rex relative.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

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

VOA: special.2009.05.14

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

VOA: special.2009.12.02