The first is that, when we started trying to eradicate polio about 20 years ago, more than twice as many countries were infected than had been when we started off with smallpox.

So I started researching, and to my surprise, this project had never been done before in the arts or the sciences.

First of all, the Cyprus problem had not started with the Turkish military intervention in 1974 but had been prompted when the partnership government had been destroyed by the Greek Cypriots in 1963, which was the reason why the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) had been deployed in 1964.

The fire had started when a batch of nitrocellulose a chemical used in nail polish had been allowed to dry out and then ignited in the summer heat.

The Court refused to intervene, however, on the grounds that it had been established that the accused had known of the document's existence even before the trial started.

who had started a successful new tribe.

With friends, we had been sitting and watching match football, and having some good music with WorldSpace radio, when it started, I think.

The abuse of Saharan prisoners in the El Aaiún prison had been exposed but the Moroccan authorities, rather than addressing that situation, had started lawsuits against two prisoners, accused of smuggling photos out of the prison, and claimed the photos had been forged.

I started talking because I had studied environment.

We had primary school actually started in 1842.

What time of life had they started school?

What I found was, I started working with refugees and famine victims small farmers, all, or nearly all who had been dispossessed and displaced.

It's been two years since I started learning Chinese.

I had started a bakery with 20 unwed mothers.

The dance had already started when I got there.

The work of the Division had been important in ensuring that the voter registration started as scheduled on 20 June 2005 in the capital, Kinshasa.

That the process of reform in education has been started,

and started counting, and within 10 seconds it had ended.

In mid August, the Special Representative of the Secretary General resumed his visit to Darfur, which had started at the end of July and had been interrupted following the tragic death of John Garang.

When she saw that they had no schools, she started one.

We've started the first malaria treatment programs they've ever had there.

Hezbollah started to reconstruct its position near Ghajar village, which had been destroyed during the 21 November exchange of fire, on which the Council received a separate briefing.

The Protection Information Section had a significant backlog. For instance, as of October 2004, it had recorded 14 general country information requests for which research work had not started yet, while 10 such tasks had been completed since January 2003 and 5 were under way.

I had started out with a thousand TEDTalks and I had 600 six word summaries for those.

The water had started coming back. It was foaming over the reef.

PJC And neither had I actually before I started making this film.

Dan had started calling Linda almost a year before they met up.

So I started asking myself, Why haven't we been able to do better?

I started working on it in 1985, and it's been evolving very slowly.

It's been on this planet since the animals first started 500 million years.

So I started developing you know, George's dad had a lot of help. I just had my brother.

She started off by telling me her dream. She said, I had two.

When we started Parikrma we had no idea which direction we were taking.

The age of mammals had well and truly started 250 million years ago ...

The Committee had started to use country task forces for the constructive dialogue.

Finally, the first Entrepreneurship Training Workshops had started in Paraguay in September 2004.

The programme had now started to focus on framing responses to these problems.

I don't have the room for this in my house, but I had to finish what I had started.

I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30 day challenges.

I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30 day challenges.

So we sell 'em, and then something weird had been happening with the stores. The store, actually even though we started out as just a gag the store actually made money.

I went back to the States and started looking around to see if I could find examples where reverse fishing licenses had been issued, and it turned out there were none.

Gene and Gail started studying Korean the moment they had gotten my first letter.

In 2009, I had graduated from high school but I still hadn't started university.

Volunteer networks have been established in a number of countries, but in many others there have been difficulties in getting started.