The famous Furnace Creek Inn is a beautiful hotel that was built of stone more than seventy-five years ago.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

Think about the advent of hedge funds -twenty or twenty-five years ago, hedge funds were a blip on the radar screen.

想想对冲基金刚出现时,差不多20或25年前,它就像雷达屏幕上的一个小点

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A Life of Her Own is a book that I became obsessed with, oh, about five or six years ago.

她的人生》是一本让我着迷的书,大概五六年前

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A new study says women's rights have gained some ground in Arab Gulf states since a similar study completed five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Suppose the planet were hit by a comet-- this happened--something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.

假设这个星球被一颗彗星击中-,这样的事，大约六千五百万年前,发生过，所以它还可能再发生。

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Rosanne Cash's latest album, "The List",features twelve of the songs her father chose for her thirty-five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

Five hundred years ago, that wouldn't have sounded dark.

五百年前,这个听起来绝对不阴暗

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The conflict began more than twenty-five years ago, when minority Tamils began fighting for an independent homeland.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Five years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published two government-financed studies of serious mistakes.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Although she died more than twenty-five years ago, many Americans still argue about Ayn Rand.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

But the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was founded twenty-five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Five years ago,Mister Rutan's SpaceShipOne became the first private craft to reach space.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Mr.Hurd became chief executive officer five years ago after H-P ousted Carly Fiorina.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

"Half the buildings you have seen, they were not there five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Five years ago,he says, obesity and diabetes were limited to India's wealthiest people.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Five years ago this August, Hurricane Katrina struck.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The 20-something athlete hurt his knee running track five years ago so he switched to disc golf, a lower impact game.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Jordaan has been responding to such concerns since South Africa was awarded the rights to host the Cup five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.06.12

Five years ago, dairy farmer Darryl Vander Haak flipped the switch on the first electric generator in Washington State powered by manure.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

And from countrymen who only five years ago survived the worst natural disaster to hit the world in decades, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

When Leo DeLeon started at the center five years ago, he told Thompson he had dreams.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

On a positive note, the United Nations estimates the number of child soldiers worldwide has fallen to 250,000 compared to 300,000 five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Five years ago,the world witnessed the biggest single natural disaster in living memory.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Five years ago,he won 96 percent of the ballots cast, following a popular movement known as the "Rose Revolution" that forced the resignation of the incumbent, Eduard Shevardnadze.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

He says Canadian forces led the vanguard here nearly five years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

"I embarked on the road of sustainability or ethics or biodiversity about five years ago, when I founded a company called Noir I work with 16,000 farmers in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

But this was less than one percent short of the two-thirds majority the ANC had campaigned for and four percentage points less than it won in elections five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

The Canadian Olympic Committee, the Vancouver organizing committee and Canada's sport federations established the program Own The Podium five years ago with the goal of winning more medals than any other country in 2010.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Chan says governments around the world are far more prepared to deal with a pandemic now than they were five years ago when the far more lethal She adds it is fortunate the current because the world is not prepared to deal with such a toxic and deadly virus.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16