Only a few years before, millions of buffalo lived on the Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

It was an event that was really meant to be a kind of coronation of Claude Levi-Strauss, whose work had burst upon the American scene only a few years earlier.

这个会议其实可以看做是,列维斯特劳斯加冕礼，他的作品在会议前几年刚刚传入美国。

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If someone's saving for their retirement you better have a lot more than that; $100,000 is only a few years of income even for low-income people.

如果你们一直存钱存到退休,肯定比这数目多多了,10万美元,不过是低收入群体几年的收入

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His record was first broken only a few years after his death.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Their marriage lasted only a few years.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

She was named after her father's only brother, who died a few years before she was born.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It is exciting to stand only a few meters away and watch scientists clean the asphalt off a fossil that is thousands of years old.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

He went to school only for a few years.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

And a few years after that, somebody shothis little brother, too, only he wasin a hotel kitchen.

VOA: standard.other

He said he never takes any option off the table, but that such a move would only delay Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12