What remains deployed in Europe is only a very small proportion of the original numbers that were there 10 or more years ago.

The monitoring of blogs has been going on for many years but needed two or three articles in the newspaper for people on the street to get used to such a development.

The European Community's Everything But Arms initiative has been in place for more than three years, and it is time that others follow.

Isotopic fingerprints typical of life, preserved in the sediments, have been used to suggest that life existed on the planet already by 3.85 billion years ago.

A number of years ago,

I haven't seen you in years.

Additionally, Maigrauge Abbey has existed since 1255, and has belonged to the Cistercians since 1262.

He has been dead for three years.

She has been dead for ten years.

That was years ago.

Sami has been Muslim for six years.

I've lived in Volgograd for 6 years.

I've been with them for three years.

Liz has been dead for eight years.

But the process that was initiated has since stalled.

About three and a half years ago I made a discovery.

We haven't seen you in the past four years.

It is three years since he died.

I think they have been married for five years.

I've been living here for five years.

Sami left college six years ago.

I have been playing football for years.

So four, almost five years ago,

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

Origins Viruses are found wherever there is life and have probably existed since living cells first evolved.

Although the Gambia had ratified the Convention over ten years previously, contradictions remained.

They've been making flat screen monitors for years.

He returned home for the first time in ten years.

Air pollution has been a public enemy to millions of Iranians for years.

I have been a girl Manaschi (storyteller of the Epic of Manas) since I was 3 years old.

Now here's what does work Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

It s been three years since the bubble broke, and more than two since Lehman Brothers collapse.

Since coming to the US four years ago, he admits life has been harder than he expected.

Appreciable concentrations of free oxygen were probably not present until about 2.5 billion years ago.

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

This was work from a number of years ago.

About ten years have passed since the day of Politkovskaya s murder.

After five years of separation since her kidnapping as a young girl,

The number of monogamous marriages in recent years has been increasing.

For several years now, terrorism has topped the agenda of the Security Council.

Now, diarrhea's interesting because it's been around for thousands of years, ever since humankind really lived side by side enough to have really polluted water.

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

This game's called Spore. I've been working on it for several years.

I've been blogging since June 2005, which is just a little less than three years.

The MA in Cultural Memory has now been running for 10 years.