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

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

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

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

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

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