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

VOA: special.2009.07.21

People never thought of insurance as the same as a bank, but since this is relatively recently-- that was only nine years ago--at this time, it means that we are now seeing an expansion of our banking system in the U.S.

人们从来不认为保险和银行是一回事,但是从那法案之后它们就是差不多的了,这只不过是九年前的法案,但是现在,这意味着在美国,银行系统得到了扩张

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When I started this company back almost nine, ten years ago, I started to recruit talents, recruit engineers, and I wrote in the job description that requires five-plus years of related experience.

大约是9到10年前，公司成立初期，我们开始招聘人才，招聘工程师，职位介绍由我亲自执笔,要求具有五年以上的相关工作经验。

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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