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  • In An Inconvenient Truth, Gore talks about radical climate change that can seemingly happen within the space of ten years-of the Earth going from warm to a new ice age.

    Bill Katovsky: Draft Gore Movement Picks Up Steam 2008

  • We have seen an increase-not over the last months, but over the last years-of the friendship and respect from governments, particularly from Latin American governments.

    Part IV of Interview With Fidel Castro 1992

  • Council, without Bonaparte having solicited it and without his having thought of making any change in the Government of that country: The governor of Venice was an old man, ninety-nine years-of age, confined by illness to his apartment.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • The child born of non-naturalized parents must therefore wait until he is forty years-of age, although at the age of sixteen he may be called upon to do military service, and may fall in the defence of the land of his birth.

    The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896

  • Arrived at Mestre, where he posted his troops, the Government sent three deputies to him, with a decree of the Great Council, without Bonaparte having solicited it and without his having thought of making any change in the Government of that country: The governor of Venice was an old man, ninety-nine years-of age, confined by illness to his apartment.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • Council, without Bonaparte having solicited it and without his having thought of making any change in the Government of that country: The governor of Venice was an old man, ninety-nine years-of age, confined by illness to his apartment.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • Not only because of the forest, but because of the knowledge-built over thousands of years-of the forest.

    Mongabay.com News 2010

  • History of Demand Media, in Links - As the news about Demand Media filing for a possible IPO in August this year leaks out, below are some links about the relatively short history-about four years-of the company, arranged in chronological order: » Demand Media Raises $120 Million For Domain-Names Based Media Company; Buys Two Companies » Demand Media Buys ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

  • I'm not the one who invested months-possibly years-of my life and potential millions of dollars into the film.

    DVD Verdict 2009

  • Buick's traditional emphases-at least in recent years-of conservative styling and interior comfort, the

    The Car Connection 2009

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