The run-up to the 2011 elections has reignited concerns about a free,fair and credible vote in Africa's most populous nation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

How it ends up in the long run for the Dutch is that the Dutch cease to be a great power.

荷兰长远之后的下场,便是荷兰国力日衰,风光不再

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Arthur Burns, chairman of the Fed, There's a big inflation run up to Richard Nixon's reelection in 1972.

亚瑟·伯恩斯，前美联储主席，当时出现了严重的通货膨胀,一直持续到1972年,理查德·尼克松连任总统。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Its mission is to examine Britain's role in the run-up to the start of the Iraq war in 2003 through the conflict and its aftermath.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

The dominoes have been set up to run for one and a half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood, and late Monday they will be toppled much like the Wall was two decades ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09