For several years,the president of Central Connecticut State University, John Miller, has been helping to answer this question.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

And then they say, "Dad wins" and then they don't think about sex for several years and that's the latency stage.

然后他们向父亲投降，“爸爸赢了“,随后几年他们不再对性感兴趣,也就是来到了潜伏期。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Or perhaps, you've been married for several years and you want a baby.

又或者，你已经结婚好几年了，你想要一个宝宝了。

How about 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He worked as a cattleman for several years, then wrote about the heroic life of the cowboy in a book called "The Virginian."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The big problem life insurance had was people would buy it and they'd pay for several years and eventually they would think, well we didn't die, we're losing all this money, let's just cancel the insurance.

人寿保险的一个主要问题是,人们在购买了若干年保险后会突然觉得,我们并没有死,保费白花了,我们干脆把保险取消好了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For several years, many people had recognized the need for changes in the banking system.

VOA: special.2010.09.23

The things we've had in cameras for several years by putting gigabytes, soon hopefully terabytes of storage on a device that has no moving parts.

几年来我们可以在相机的存储设备,里存入千兆字节，甚至不久以后可以存入兆兆字节,设备里没有移动部件。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Farms in many areas failed because little or no rain fell for several years.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

The kinds of things that are going to be invented over the next several years is just to me outstanding, and particularly for somebody who's got skills in software.

在接下来的数十年里要被发明出的东西,真是令人望而生叹，尤其对于有软件才能的人来说。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

When Mary was seven years old, her family moved to Europe for several years.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

He's been directing his project for actually several years, which is an attempt to give students to a much wider range of materials that they can use to help learn about Shakespeare and his work.

他已经指导这个项目,好几年了，试图给学生机会,接触更多更广的关于莎士比亚,及其作品的资料，来帮助学习。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And for several years she traveled as a speaker for the Socialist Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

In '98, I forget which way, but one of the share classes 20% was at a 20% discount to the other and that persisted for several years, so you have economically identical things trading at different prices.

在98年，我不记得是为什么，一支这种类型的股票,比另一只股票便宜,而且这种现象持续了好几年的时间，因此你拥有经济意义上完全相同,但是却以不同价格进行交易的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Joseph had three children. Their mother had been dead for several years.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

So I wrote a little program called "chart" that, based on some data I happened to hardcode into the program, shows us their numbers for the past several years.

我写了一个叫做“图表“的小程序，基于我在程序中硬编码的一些数据，向我们显示在过去几年中我们课程的人数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For several years, the nation had suffered from a serious economic depression.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Parts of Australia have seen below-average rainfall for several years and the outlook for many parched communities is not good.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Many have little sympathy for those in the Gaza Strip, where militants have been firing rockets at Israel for several years.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

After graduating with a degree in fine arts, Mikhaiel worked as a jeweler and interior designer for several years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

In 2000,confrontations at the site of the al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall sparked a bloody, Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada, which lasted for several years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The two militaries have held exercises for several years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

For several years,al-Shabab, which follows the ultra-conservative branch of Islam propagated by al-Qaida and the Taliban, has been trying to eradicate Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, which has deep roots in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"We know that surface use of dispersants decreases the environmental risk to shorelines and organisms at the surface and we know that dispersants break down over weeks rather than remaining for several years as untreated oil might."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Boehringer Ingelheim has been working with the nonprofit organization PATH to offer a similar pouch for the past several years.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

But several years ago, Netflix officials decided they were not satisfied with the system for suggesting movies.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

"We've only had this technology around for about fifteen years, and most carcinogens will take about several decades, thirty-forty years to develop a cancer.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Event organizers have had seven years and several billion dollars to plan for these Winter Games.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

He worked in Boston for a few years, drawing illustrations for stories in several newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Several years ago,two American researchers reported another reason for spice use in cooking.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

The price of wheat rose for the first time in several years.

VOA: special.2010.07.01