But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Voters in the last few years, and most recently in May, have rejected several ballot measures that would have raised taxes.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

On this paper I have written all the problems I have answered for you in the last 40 years.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

In the last show before the break, the group competed against two other high school glee clubs, and won the competition.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

In the last ten years, hundreds of American schools have begun to offer a new way to teach foreign languages.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Voter turnout was lower than in the last national elections in two thousand five -- sixty-two percent compared to seventy-six percent.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

A researcher says three hundred forty-three thousand AIDS deaths in South Africa in the last ten years could have been prevented.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The king said to him: " don't tell me all the problems you have settled for me in the last 40 years.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

The study did find improvements in sub-Saharan Africa in the last five years,however, possibly as a result of expanded efforts against AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

They believe the simian immunodeficiency virus,S.I.V., probably crossed from chimpanzees to humans in the last one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Experts found that two hundred ten rhinos were illegally killed in South Africa in the last three years.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

In the last two years, only six people were found guilty of poaching charges out of forty-one arrested.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

In the last national census, or population count, Hispanics,or Latinos, made up twelve percent of the total population.

VOA: special.2010.05.07