Once they pass the exams, they can leave high school as early as the end of the second year.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

As early as the tenth century, the Chinese traded their ceramics throughout the Middle East and southeast Asia.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

But as early as the middle seventeen hundreds, Cape May began to be known as a place to visit in the summer.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Europeans started to copy the fine traditions of Japanese and Chinese ceramics as early as the eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

As early as the eighteen eighties, two new technical developments made these taller buildings possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

Clara Barton started her life as a nurse during the early days of the Civil War in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The researchers say estimating and preventing early deaths in adults is just as important as improving child survival.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In the United States in the early eighteen hundreds, fifteen ounces of silver had the same value as one ounce of gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

He recalled his early Chicago days in a letter published when he resigned from the Senate after his election as president in November.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

During the early nineteen fifties, he also became known for social action as well as property development.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

That means early signs of economic recovery, like the way plants begin to shoot up from the ground as a sign of spring.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The early nineteen twenties marked the beginning of Zora Neale Hurston's life as a writer.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The tree sap in early spring; the new-born green leaf, soft and fresh as skin;

VOA: special.2010.02.27