Job cuts are spreading throughout the economy as the year-long recession deepens.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

In the year-long battle over reform, President Obama stressed the importance of billions of dollars in longer-term savings from reducing waste in the current health care system.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

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

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

Every year at this time, the peasants began their long religious pilgrimage to Geed-leh, to visit the church there, and to pray for God's help.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

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

VOA: special.2011.02.25

(THE JAMIES - "SUMMERTIME,SUMMERTIME") It is summer almost all year long in California.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

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

Opposition demonstrators are targeting French concerns because of the long relationship between French leaders and the 42-year-rule of Gabonese President Omar Bongo.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

... Twenty-six year-old Louis Jacques Franto told us if the government wants to move us that is fine, as long as it is safe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

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

The list of reasons why teams coming from abroad were not thrilled at the prospect of several weeks in Nigeria for this year's Under-17 World Cup is long.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

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

Throughout the more than year-long preparatory process, FIFA reports indicated that the Nigerians were well behind schedule in assuring that the proper infrastructure would be in place to host the event.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

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