Several years ago, people were objecting to the odor of poultry farms on the Delmarva Peninsula in the eastern United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Over the years,researchers have identified several substances in the blood that can serve as what they call cardiac biomarkers.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Voters in the last few years, and most recently in May, have rejected several ballot measures that would have raised taxes.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The report says temperatures are estimated to increase by several degrees Celsius in the next one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Researchers at the University of Bristol in England discovered similar movements among baby reef fish several years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

She says her students over the past several years have increasingly used less formal English in their writing.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The report says that, at maximum activity, the small increase in sunshine over several years causes a small temperature increase in Earth's atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

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

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

VOA: special.2010.09.23

Several years later, he wrote a book called "The Coming Race War in America."

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Scientists can predict how this instrument might have sounded by studying a copy of a smaller bird bone flute found several years ago in the same area.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Several years ago, scientists in Singapore investigated curcumin, from the curry spice turmeric.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

In the next several years, Tanya Pinto hopes to begin sponsoring an orphanage.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

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

VOA: special.2010.07.01

After several years of working in the colony, he himself developed leprosy.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

And in the past several years we've begun to see almost an equal interest by families in sending students here for undergraduate education, and I think that's going to continue because America is really a unique country.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

He says most forced labor is in the private economy, and it is usually for several months or years.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

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

Johnson says that her students, over the past several years, have increasingly used a more informal English vocabulary in formal assignments.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

You can expect to see a lot more from us in terms of investigations of individuals and institutions over the next several years."

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

Last month, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Bisa Williams became the highest-ranking U.S.official to visit Cuba in several years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The LDP's popularity has fallen sharply in the past few years as it struggled with a weak economy and the aftermath of several corruption scandals.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

In recent years, there have been several attempted and successful kidnappings of western journalists in southern Somalia and in the northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

"There's actually, in the last several years, been convincing evidence that replacing saturated fat in one's diet with carbohydrates has very little effect on heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The story really begins in Iraq several years ago, when insurgents first began using home-made roadside bombs against the High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee,the main vehicle the troops were using.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02