During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

These are just many ways that people died during the Thirty years' War.

描绘了三十年战争期间的各种死亡的惨状

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

One of them was that the U.S. Government had shut down the construction industry during the war, so they didn't build any houses for close to five years; obviously we had a shortage of housing.

其一就是美国政府在战争时期,停止了建筑行业,那时他们已经快五年没有建造任何房屋了,显然,房屋资源是短缺的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The country is just seven years removed from 27 years of civil war during which the United States backed rebels fighting President Dos Santos.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

"This year it is very important for us to in a consensus, we decide together, not to look for war and not to repeat the bad experience we had during these last 10 years,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

This urban setting has been pointed out by anonymous tipsters, who have come forward after 25 years, as the suspected final resting place of at least four people who disappeared during the civil war that raged in Guatemala during the 1980s.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18