• A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

    VOA: special.2010.07.15

  • Five years earlier, another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea.

    VOA: special.2009.09.22

  • Some years earlier, he had asked several people to invest in a gold mine he had in Death Valley.

    VOA: special.2011.08.03

  • But its lack of action did not stop the rise of a labor organization that had been formed a few years earlier.

    VOA: special.2010.05.06

  • Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

    VOA: special.2009.03.18

  • Blaine had written the letters several years earlier during a shameful incident concerning the sale of railroad stock.

    VOA: special.2010.04.29

  • Democrat Grover Cleveland -- who had lost to Harrison four years earlier -- would be president again.

    VOA: special.2010.06.10

  • A group of more than one hundred Englishmen had arrived two years earlier, in fifteen eighty-five.

    VOA: special.2009.08.17

  • Years earlier, she had urged him to resign from the Senate and return to New Hampshire.

    VOA: special.2009.04.23

  • He had spent much time with them during their long trip to Utah ten years earlier.

    VOA: special.2009.06.04

  • Forty years earlier, a group of leading Americans had formed an organization for that purpose.

    VOA: special.2009.04.16

  • He shot himself to death in nineteen sixty-one, just as his father had years earlier.

    VOA: special.2010.04.09

  • It was nineteen thirty-three. Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

    VOA: special.2011.04.27

  • But more than ten years earlier, he had been involved with a young woman.

    VOA: special.2010.04.29

  • 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

  • Four years earlier, President-elect Lincoln had traveled by train from Illinois to Washington.

    VOA: special.2010.01.07

  • as Charlie Parker's followers called him. Parker knew those performances might be his last chance to re-claim the success he had gained only a few years earlier.

    VOA: special.2009.05.03

  • But his words rang with the same strength as years earlier.

    VOA: special.2009.03.26

  • Gold had brought thousands of settlers to California ten years earlier.

    VOA: special.2009.05.28

  • Years earlier he had suggested sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviets.

    VOA: special.2009.06.14

  • Fremont had been the Republican presidential candidate eight years earlier.

    VOA: special.2009.12.10

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