Homestake operated as a gold mine for one hundred twenty-five years before closing about nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The last time an American official visited the North was nine years ago during Mister Clinton's presidency.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

The money will help to support projects approved by the government nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

About nine hundred years ago, the Ancestral Puebloan people built villages high in the walls of canyons in Mesa Verde,Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The Battle of Solferino took place one hundred fifty years ago, in June of eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

They were so effective and cost effective and yet immunization rates were on the decline if you look back 10 years ago, However,she says in the last nine years, immunization rates for such diseases as diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis have risen sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29