When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Question: So then, is it possible that the patient was alive ? when you began the autopsy?

问题，那有没有可能,这个病人在你开始解剖时,还是活着的？

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Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

She says it began when Hurricane Charley hit Florida in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

It all began three or four years ago when there was construction boom.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The Israeli government angered and embarrassed the Obama administration a week ago when it announced, as Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel, that it will build 1,600 new Jewish housing units in mainly-Arab East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16