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