Some festivals, like the one in Adelaide,Australia, are very large and have been going on for many years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

This system has worked well for twenty years now but it is being superseded by another Basel Convention -Basel II -which has been going on for some years now.

至今这个体系已经良好运作了20年,但是它即将被另一个巴塞尔公约所取代,新巴塞尔协议,其实它已经实施了好几年

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

and she's now playing some pretty fairly difficult things considering that she has only taken for a couple of years. So,

尽管她才学了几年，她现在已经可以弹奏比较难的曲目了。所以，

和钢琴老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Some colleges might require international students to show that they can pay for all 4 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

I have some old records and I'll see what I'm paying for my gold for the gold fillings ten years ago.

我有一些旧的记录,我可以去看看十年前,我到底补金牙时为了金子花了多少钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Also,in Darwin's time, the age of the Earth was estimated only in the millions of years too short a time some said for evolution to work.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

And the history of human rights ; for some people's gonna start thousands of years ago; And for many people was going to start in the Enlightenment.

人权的历史,对一些人来说几千年前就开始了;,而对很多人而言则是在启蒙运动时发端。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And,we will have some good news for people fifty years of age and up.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

So I wrote a little program called "chart" that, based on some data I happened to hardcode into the program, shows us their numbers for the past several years.

我写了一个叫做“图表“的小程序，基于我在程序中硬编码的一些数据，向我们显示在过去几年中我们课程的人数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

However,some eggs can stay in water for years until conditions are right for development.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

Is this looking familiar for some of you who can remember doing 115 last year or maybe two years ago for some of you?

对于你们这些学过经济学115的来说,这些听起来都不陌生吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

For some patients, it can be years before the problem is correctly identified.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Some, like the smallpox vaccine on one exposure generates a very high response that lasts for many years so you don't need a boost.

有一些疫苗,比如接触一次天花疫苗后,人体就能产生高水平的免疫应答,并持续很多年,所以无需再次接种

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"But the folks who have been looking for work without any luck for months and,in some cases,years, cannot wait any longer.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

These are very interesting results, but sort of the bias that everything should be done with white males that existed for many years hid some of these really interesting and important interactions that otherwise people didn't know much about.

这都是些值得关注的结果,但多年来对白人男性的研究带来的偏见,掩盖了这些有趣而重要的相互关系,人们对此知道得不多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Hello" and "Say You,Say Me." Three years ago, he turned to some popular hip-hop producers to update his sound for his "Coming Home" album.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

And I'm very interested in what happened in the French suburbs two years ago; in fact, I wrote an instant article on it for an encyclopedia because some of the work I'd earlier done was about why French suburbs and European suburbs are different than American suburbs.

我对两年前,在法国郊区的事很感兴趣,其实我当时就给一个百科全书,写了一篇文章,因为我以前研究过,为什么法国和欧洲的郊区,与美国郊区有这么大的差别

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

After some years in politics in Calgary, she worked in public relations for eight years in the airline industry, before taking the VANOC job in 2005.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In a letter in late 1861 from the front, "Will indeed settle the question, for some years at least, as to whether union or secession, the Constitution or rebellion, shall triumph.

在一封1861年年底来自前线的信中,"会解决问题,但至少需要数年,不管是联合还是独立,宪法抑或是起义,终将有一方胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Like for instance, there was a young person who came to me some years back and he said that he wanted to start a solar energy business.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Then I drove over for some years.

然后我开了几年。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The Senate does not. Senator Robert Menendez - a New Jersey Democrat - served for many years in the House and has some advice for his former colleagues.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Some people have had these for 15 or 20 years and never been able to get one to bloom, so we are really lucky here to have one."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

I lived in Europe for almost 4 years and I would say not just in some ways, but perhaps in all ways, we have done that.

我在欧洲生活了将近4年，我想说,不止是在一些方面，而或许是在所有方面，我们做得都好于欧洲人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This has been the situation in the Congo for many years." One of the reports focuses on the actions of government forces, some of whom engaged in large-scale pillaging, arbitrary killings and sexual violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

But if it watches you over some amount of time just like it's been for years with advertisements, can this kind of algorithm, this kind of process presumably improve?

但是如果它像关注广告一样,花费一些时间关注你，这些算法和进程，想必会提升吧？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

U.S.officials acknowledge that, even if the situation in Afghanistan begins to turn during the next 12 months, the U.S.withdrawal will likely be very gradual, and some number of international troops will be needed in Afghanistan for many years to come.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"BP actually when they merged with Amoco some years ago, the profile of the employees within the organization changed significantly and now for every British employee of BP there are two and a half Americans working for BP."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"Some of you legitimately may have been surprised that such a strong supporter of Israel,for the last 37 years and beyond, but 37 years as an elected official, how I can speak out so strongly, given the ties that I share as well as my country shares with Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11