His friends were already there.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

This is on top of the 38,000 that are already there, taking into account a doubling over the past two years,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Mr.Rudd has not said whether he will agree to a U.S.request to send more Australian troops to Afghanistan, joining the 1,100 already there.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

He is believed to be asking for as many as 40,000 troops,maybe more, on top of 68,000 U.S.troops and 40,000 from other countries, who are already there.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to boost the U.N.stabilization mission in Haiti by 3,500 troops and police officers, who would join 9,000 security personnel already there.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

In eighteen eighty-six, Maggie Tobin left home for the town of Leadville,Colorado, to join a sister and brother who already lived there.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

We have already been there nine years. I believe that is too high a price to pay."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Slaves already in the territory could be kept there.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

But there are already small incremental signs of change at the White House and the Democratic Party headquarters following the Massachusetts election.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Already fires have begun in parts of Indonesia, where there are warnings that an extended dry season this year could trigger severe blazes.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

So if anything we have a reinforcement of the ash that's already up there - so things aren't looking too good today I'm afraid."

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

"So somehow it was a surprise that there is already in adolescents these kinds of changes."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

There are already two drugs available to fight sleeping sickness, but they are both problematic.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"I think that there are,already, concerns that the interim government will use their control of the local governments to stuff the ballots and rig the vote."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22