"The peaches have ripened and should be picked,wife",said the old man, "Let us gather them now before the wind does our work for us."

VOA: special.2009.02.28

And now,before my courage fails, I would ask you, to be mine in marriage.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

"When I was talking about knowing if my business is viable or not, through a profit-and-loss model, I was like 'Wow,I didn't even know the word viable before, and now I do.'

VOA: special.2011.06.30

She says now every home has a phone,TV,fridge and washing machine, but before the '80s these were much rarer.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

He says the global economy must change to a sustainable system now before social issues and ecological degradation become overwhelming.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

"We flew on it for a couple hours, and now it's 24 hours before we go fly again."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

That was before the blockade. Now she - and thousands of Gazans - depend on the United Nations - and Hamas - for subsistence.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

"Before there was no way in getting that 3D movie into your house and now there is and that's why the sets are coming out now."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Government officials say the last flight from Iran to Saudi Arabia will be Monday and all Iranian pilgrims now in the Arab country will be flown home before Ramadan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.09

And now,the government is being criticized for groveling before leader Gadhafi.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

President Obama has made health care reform his top domestic priority, and Rothenberg says it has now become essential for Democrats to get something through Congress before next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"What's new is that we can actually do something to help the victims, and rather than what happened before was they may end up being prosecuted and criminalized themselves, that now it's recognized that they're victims."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Georgian political analyst Romaz Sakbarelidze at the Strategic Research Center in Tbilisi noted the NATO exercises were planned long before the August conflict, and said it would send the wrong political signal to cancel them now.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Once common in Europe and the United States, cases of obstetric fistula now occur almost entirely in the developing world where poor nutrition and girls giving birth before their pelvis is fully developed contribute to the risks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23