Or they can train for a job for a year or two and get a certificate.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

The plan was to stay for a year or two, and then go back to Canada, and I lost track of time.

本来的计划是待一两年，然后就回多伦多，但是计划打乱了。

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"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11