For the country s first few years, debt service swallowed more than 80 of all federal revenues.

A few years later indeed, 50 years ago this week the Soviet Union launched the first earth orbiting satellite, inaugurating the space age.

PR Well, first of all, we're very early, so this has only been going on for a few years.

A few years later, Vostok 6 was launched and Ms. Tereshkova became the first woman to journey into space.

When I was 12 years old, I was one of the first few people in Singapore who underwent cochlear implantation.

A lack of proper nutrition during the first few years of life affected children's intellectual development and ability to learn.

And it s actually something that we invented a few years ago, or created a few years ago.

Then a few years later

First and foremost is economic growth, which for the past few years indeed, for the past two decades has been dismal.

A few years later indeed, 50 years ago this week the Soviet Union launched the first earth orbiting satellite, inaugurating the space age. After 50 years, many elements of the original vision have been achieved, some have failed, and there have been more than a few surprises.

The settlers were at first on good terms with the island's Carib inhabitants, though such friendship lasted only a very few years.

The first few years of his rule were dominated by his struggle to gain control of the country s state owned oil company, PDVSA.

Complex eyes appear to have first evolved within a few million years, in the rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian explosion.

The next few years will be critical.

And I was with him in the park as a three year old when he first had the first of the strokes that would take his life a few years later.

What exactly did the US do in Asia? The first few years of the occupation of Japan were indeed a remarkable success for democracy.

The pyramid was entered for the first time a few years later by Jacques de Morgan but he too did not explore it further.

A few years later another encyclopedia got started.

Then I couldn't participate for a few years.

Similar scenes occurred over the following few years.

( within a few years ) they will be victorious .

Feijenoord won the double for the first time in their history in 1965, and managed to win another double a few years later in 1969.

A few years ago, India could do no wrong.

The next few years were productive ones for Shockley.

Over the next few years, Rodgers was very busy.

After a year of only listening and not speaking, by the first day of first grade, I had somehow learned how to speak and write in English. The next few years were a blur.

For the first few years after Sukarno's fall in 1966, all the benefits of genuine democracy, including freedom of the press, were restored (except for the communists).

The last few years demonstrate that neither approach will work.

Few governments lived to their natural term of four years.

ISTANBUL Just a few years ago, Europe headed Turkey s agenda.

In the past few years mobile reverse auction have evolved.

Thirdly, food security has improved in the past few years.

We're advising the Burmese opposition, the government of Southern Sudan, which you heard it here first is going to be a new country within the next few years.

Although his first turbine was only 1.6 efficient and generated a mere 7.5 kilowatts, rapid incremental improvements in a few years led to his first megawatt turbine built in 1899 for a generating plant at Elberfeld, Germany.

The planet has crossed the halfway mark a few years ago.

A few years ago, Gateway came out with flat screen TVs.

And yet, a few years earlier, death never crossed their mind.

We are within a few years of ending deaths from malaria.

Few things will be needed more in the years to come.

In a few genes, this had occurred five years before diagnosis.

They seem to come in waves every few years, or so.

Israeli media has undergone significant changes over the past few years.

His second marriage with Linda Oppenheimer lasted only a few years.

The university has grown rapidly, particularly in the last few years.

Most of the swelling will disappear in the first few weeks, but some may remain for a few months.