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 kinds of things that are going to be invented over the next several years is just to me outstanding, and particularly for somebody who's got skills in software.

在接下来的数十年里要被发明出的东西,真是令人望而生叹，尤其对于有软件才能的人来说。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

The things we've had in cameras for several years by putting gigabytes, soon hopefully terabytes of storage on a device that has no moving parts.

几年来我们可以在相机的存储设备,里存入千兆字节，甚至不久以后可以存入兆兆字节,设备里没有移动部件。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Exports tumbled and joblessness rose to its highest levels in several years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

We did a study using the Framingham data ourselves several --some years ago where we were interested in the issue of weight cycling.

几年前我们用弗明汉研究的数据做过研究,我们对体重循环这个问题很感兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A U.S.announcement Tuesday that special envoy Stephen Bosworth will visit Pyongyang before the end of the year nearly coincided with reports of the naval skirmish, the first of its kind in several years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Then the Phase Three that I mentioned, the 10,000 years ago had several things occur that were very important in shaping our current situation.

最后是我提过的第三阶段,一万年前发生的某些转变,对塑造当下的饮食结构而言,意义重大

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

During the next several years, Hurston traveled in Florida and the Caribbean to collect and write stories about what she saw.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Now we'll go back further than 10,000 years to talk about the history of food, but in those--but at 10,000 years ago several very important changes happened that have shaped to a great extent what our modern relationship with food is.

让我们回到一万多年前,来讨论饮食史,但是,一万年前,发生了一些很重要的变化,这些变化很大程度上塑造了,现代人类与食物的关系

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

Some years earlier, he had asked several people to invest in a gold mine he had in Death Valley.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

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

Several popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feeling, broke the hearts of their lovers.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

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

He had a heart attack at his home in Florida after several years of failing health.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

He worked in Boston for a few years, drawing illustrations for stories in several newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

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

VOA: special.2010.09.23

Farms in many areas failed because little or no rain fell for several years.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

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

Several years ago,two American researchers reported another reason for spice use in cooking.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

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

VOA: special.2009.10.14

For example, researchers in Singapore completed one such study several years ago.

VOA: special.2010.06.01