The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

So this is perhaps a site that some of you have spent way too much time on last year, if not in the past week or so, com this is isawyouharvard.com.

很多同学去年的时候,在这个网站上花费了很多时间，可能上周还玩了，这个网站的网址是isawyouharvard。

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Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The Japanese government bailed out the airline three times in the past 10 years, but it could not save the company from bankruptcy this time around.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Now it's high time that we divert from the past or from the notion of liberating the country onto other important things in the economy and education,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

As in other cases during the past few years, average travelers are now the ones paying the price by spending even more time in international airport terminals and undergoing increased screening, while security officials attempt to figure out just went wrong and who was responsible.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28