The Federal Housing Finance Agency said home prices fell seven percent in the first three months of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

He determined the year by designating the zones; He set up three constellations for each of the twelve months.

他指派区域来划定年份;,他划分了十二个月份，每个月份有三个星座。

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where i'm working, you know, twelve hours a day for a couple a months of the year.

一年里好几个月我都是每天工作1２个小时。

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"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

One of the most interesting questions we continuously ask ourselves at Accel over the last year and nine months, why didn't we see the Facebook earlier?

在过去的一年九个月里,我们Accel人常问自己一个有趣的问题，为什么我们没早点见到脸谱网呢？

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The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

And then a year and a couple of months later, by the year later we were engaged

一年零几个月后，我们订婚了，

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On Thursday JPMorgan Chase reported more than two billion dollars in profit for the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

and which of course I understand, like in Massachusetts, six months of the year,

我很理解这一点，像在马萨诸塞，一年有六个月

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However,information gathered for the first three months of this year suggest two thousand nine will be even worse.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

It reported a profit of about six billion dollars in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Britain's economy may have shrunk by 1% just in the final 3 months of last year.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Friday brought news that the economy shrank 3.8% in the final 3 months of last year.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

The growth rate in the first three months of this year was nearly twelve percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

It shipped more than five thousand bikes during the first eight months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Seven incidents were reported there in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In the first nine months of 2009, capital inflows stood at just $12 billion one fifth the level of a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"Oil prices for the first six months of this year are roughly what they were in the year 2006, a boom year for Venezuela.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

This year alone, since the first of January, we have had more than 70 incidents, just in the first two-and-a-half months of this year."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

When exports of automobiles crossed a quarter of a million in the first seven months of the year, India's auto industry had two reasons to cheer.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The U.S.economy grew at a faster than expected rate at the end of 2009, up nearly six percent in the last three months of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

A recent UN report found the number of civilians killed increased by 24 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Tens of thousands of people were killed during Sri Lanka's An estimated 6500 people were reportedly killed and 14,000 wounded during the last few months of the war earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

In fact,U.S.and NATO military commanders say insurgent violence rose nearly 60 percent between the first six months of this year, compared to last year the highest level of violence since 2001 when the Taliban government was ousted by US.led forces.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Silvia expects the situation to improve soon. "I would suspect that the jobs numbers would turn positive by the second quarter of this year, so probably another two or three months out we'll get some positive jobs numbers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Blatter's doubts about Nigeria's hosting capacities have been made explicit in recent months, based over a year of debate and threats of moving the tournament, during which the country did just enough to avoid the embarrassment of being replaced as host.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Other infectious disease experts,however, have insisted Australia's is over-reacting to the outbreak of the A-H1N1 virus, insisting that,so far, the disease is no worse than other strains of influenza that kill hundreds of Australians every year during the colder winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30