There have been delays before. Officials said the average processing time in October of two thousand three was seventy-five days.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

"In the major time-share developments, the major fractional developments or full ownership, more than half of those purchases are from Americans."

VOA: special.2011.06.13

in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

By the time he returned to England in October of eighteen thirty-six, he was already a well known geologist and naturalist.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

"Mr.President," he said, "at this time it is suicide -- murder and will lose us every friend in the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The study found there is strong support for restricting work by doctors-in-training to sixteen or fewer hours at one time.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Last week, we told you that the number of foreign students in the United States had reached an all-time high.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Then everything she had was destroyed again -- this time, in the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

By the time of her death in nineteen seventy-six, the yard had more than three hundred statues of animals and imaginary creatures.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

He was the best-known Republican in the country at that time: Senator William Seward of New York.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

And it did so in record time. In the summer of nineteen-forty, in just a few days the company created a complete design.

VOA: special.2011.08.05

The picture it paints of life in America at that time -- the parties,the automobiles, the endless fields of waste -- are unforgettable.

VOA: special.2010.11.28