Your 'inner' linear layout has an attribute layout_width="fill_parent" this will cause your inner linear layout to take up all the remaining horizontal space. To get it to work change the linear layout's layout_width attribute to a smaller value say 150dip.
I would always recommend using RelativeLayout (but it's just personal preference).
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