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

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.07.22

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

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

VOA: special.2011.02.25

"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

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