The group notes that a past fishing treaty took almost ten years to come into force.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

They also have government-issued notes and that's from one to ten years and bonds this is just jargon- these are ten or more, well actually more than ten.

中期债券期限通常是,一年至十年,这些都是行话,长期债券期限,在十年以上

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Paul Ingram,co-director of the London-based British-American Security Information Council, notes that similar attacks have been going on for years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

He also notes that eight years after the U.S.-led invasion into Afghanistan, the Taliban is still strong, especially in the country's south.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Phil Thomas,president of the Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, notes proudly that for the past two years, his town has had one of the strongest economies in Alabama.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10