Secretary Gates said he has launched a year-long study of the possible effects of a change in the law.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Stocks have paid 4% more a year over this incredibly long time period than short-term bonds.

股票在相当长的一段时间里,每年都比短期债券投资收益率,高出4个百分点。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So I did teach English in a foreign country, in Greece for a year, a long time ago.

那么我在外国教过英语，在希腊教了一年，那是在很久以前了。

在公园相遇的老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Last year,Doctor Chan reported that a long-term study of almost fifty thousand men showed that aspirin can help prevent colon cancer.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

You can pay more into the cash value in one year and less in another year, as long as you keep paying a minimum amount.

你可以在某一年支付更多的现金,而在另一年支付少一些,只要投保人满足最低缴费要求就行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Last year Doctor Chan reported that a long-term study of almost fifty thousand men showed that aspirin can help prevent colon cancer.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

That car stage or that car slice if we want to talk about that way it has only been around for however long months, years, a year.

那辆车的阶段或者部分,如果我们非要分析的话,只能持续很短时间,几个月，几年，或者一年。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The twenty-two meter long rocket would put a little scientific satellite into orbit as one of the events of the international geophysical year.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.

美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

These were developed in a year-long process led by state governors and chief state school officers.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

it's a two-and-a-half-year-long program that mixes biology, chemistry, physics and computer science together.

这门课是一个两年半的项目，涵盖了生物学、化学、物理学，还有计算机科学。

与教授的面谈 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

To my surprise, nobody had before created a hundred-year long home price index, which seems surprising to me because the long history of home prices seems like a relevant fact; we want to know what markets do.

让我惊讶的是,此前居然没有人建立百年房屋价格指数,这点让我很惊讶,因为长期的历史房屋价格,看起来似乎是有关联的,我们很想知道市场的动向

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She had won a year-long fellowship at Harvard University for writing about the homeless.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

The board members have fourteen-year terms which is quite a long time.

小组成员有十四年的任期,确实是个很长的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I was in a long distance relationship for about a year, and Skype really helped because you could actually see the other person when you are talking."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.

它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Two thousand nine was a long year struggled financially, like most of America.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

He is referring to reports that the Army was planning a coup following the end of the 25-year-long civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

That's what author William Alexander discovered when he embarked on a year-long odyssey to re-create the perfect loaf of peasant bread.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Lawmakers smashed open doors and staged a weeks-long sit-in to prevent votes related to the deal earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Last year,President Obama revived a long-standing request for Saudi Arabia to move towards recognition of Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Pyongyang pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and a nuclear explosive, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

This latest incident comes at a time when Afghanistan is witnessing its worst violence of the eight-year-long war following the ouster of the Taliban from power in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

North Korea pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and nuclear explosive earlier in the year, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

In September,a power struggle erupted in violence in the lower Juba region between al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam, a clan-based Islamist-nationalist group which had been al-Shabab's main ally in its year-long battle to overthrow the U.N.-backed government in Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02