Since the anti-trust law had been passed in eighteen ninety, few companies had been found guilty of violating it.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

You can see that residential investment, as a fraction of GDP, has been very variable through history of the United States since World War II and that it's had a strong relationship with recessions.

住宅投资要计入,国内生产总值,纵观美国自二战以来,这部分投资,变动很大,而且与衰退存在着密切关联

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's been a while since I've been doing that because I haven't had as much free time as I would have liked.

我已经很久没有播报了。因为我最近都没有太多的空余时间。

广播人员怎么样？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was a long time since Missus Sommers had been fitted with gloves.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

What's happened actually if we base it in the last 25 years since the early '80s We've just had two recessions and they've been very mild by historical standards and...two--now three long expansions in between.

实际上是什么情况呢,80年代初期以来，这25年当中,我们只经历过两次经济衰退,而且在历史上算是相对轻微的,其间则是两，三次长时间的经济增长。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

It had been silent ever since and it should remain silent,too.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

A rock-throwing crowd attacked parliament in what observers described as the worst street violence the Baltic nation had seen since it regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Since it was just me and Mama and we had all these empty rooms, Mama decided to let those rooms out, mostly to people passing through, Like from, oh, Mobile,Montgomery, places like that.

VOA: standard.other