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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.05.12

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

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