But in the last few decades that has totally changed.

And what's been taking up the slack in the last few decades?

And the outcome is going to get resolved within a few decades.

Over the past few decades, Africa has suffered more from armed conflicts than any other continent.

Maligned neoplasm are in second place (18 ), and their number has risen in the last few decades.

Will we be able to feed a population that will be nine billion in just a few decades?

It will be prohibited because we'll have to save our natural resources in a few decades from now.

Well, I think out ahead of us a few decades is peak gas, and beyond that, peak renewables.

(c) Ensuring that the effective atmospheric monitoring systems put into place over the past few decades are maintained.

Until a few decades ago, it was possible to think of endogenous development, although the idea was debatable.

Malign neoplasm is in second place with 18 per cent and its number increased in the last few decades.

Over the last few decades, there has been increasing convergence towards a set of non jurisdiction specific, widely recognized financial reporting standards.

So amazing example of an adaptation to a very resource constrained environment and in that sense, very relevant to the kind of challenges we're going to be facing over the next few years, next few decades.

Over the past few decades, the principles and foundations of public administration have experienced a radical transformation, owing to two major changes in the world.

But we have, somehow, in the course of the last few centuries, or even decades, started to cultivate an image of a mythical, rural agricultural past.

OXFORD The last few decades of globalization and innovation have resulted in the most rapid progress that the world has ever known. Poverty has been reduced.

Certain technologies are still too expensive and may require a few decades of continued research and development before they can make large contributions on a global scale.

Many plans have been elaborated over the last few decades aimed at resolving the question of Palestine, the most recent of which is the Quartet's road map.

In the past few decades, there has been remarkable development in space technology and its applications in a number of developed and developing Asian and Pacific countries.

And that's that I think it's given us a wonderful narrative almost a creation story, if you'd like about the universe, from modern science over the last few decades.

The great changes operated in the last few decades, the multiple population movement due to constant wars and natural disasters have been changing social practices in a radical manner.

China s science and technology have developed rapidly in the past few decades, and Australia and China can achieve fruitful results by going forward hand in hand in the scientific field.

We've been spending the last few decades accumulating a very powerful backlog of technologies for saving and substituting for oil, and no one had bothered to add them up before.

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution with modernization of agriculture in the last few decades, since the 1960s, food availability, per head, in this world, has increased by 25 percent.

In a few decades, when China s economy equals America s in size, the winner will be hard to pick. Better for the West to accept equality now and struggle to maintain it.

Over the past few decades, responding to steadily growing demand, the system has seen a welcome expansion in its membership as well as in the scale and scope of its activities.

Most of the world s urban areas have already experienced far more dramatic temperature hikes over the past few decades than the 2.6 C increase expected from global warming over the next hundred years.

At least for the next few decades, it will also require accepting a diverse mix of energy sources and technologies, with increased attention to be given to renewable sources of energy (see sect. II above).

The climate problem does not stop at borders. In the next few decades, a low lying country like the Netherlands will need to invest billions of euros to intensify its age old struggle against rising water.

Twenty years ago, they could graduate from high school without ever using a computer. In only a few decades,amp 160 computer technology and the Internet have transformed the core principles of information, knowledge, and education.

I want Russia to be a boring country at least for the next few decades. In the twentieth century, Russia set an unquestionable record for all sorts of upheavals and social experiments that attracted the world s attention.

Over the course of a few decades, major city centers across the world began to resemble each other much more closely, with the same brands, designs, and lifestyles. Consumption or, more precisely, consumerism , appeared to be globalized.

Two Decades from Warsaw

OXFORD Over the last few decades, the International Monetary Fund has learned six important lessons about how to manage government debt crises. In its response to the crisis in Greece, however, each of these lessons has been ignored.

It actually turns out, though, even though we've only known of long range propagation for a few decades, the whales clearly have evolved, over tens of millions of years, a way to exploit this amazing property of the ocean.

This is a good story, full of human drama and power politics. But I wonder whether, even within the next few decades, another factor will influence our work lives even more the exponential rise of applications of artificial intelligence.

GENEVA Europe s slow motion sovereign debt crisis may appear unique, but it is not. Just a few decades ago, Europe had the Exchange Rate Mechanism, which collapsed during a crisis very much akin to the one afflicting Europe today.

The atlas of African lakes One Planet Many People Images of Africa's Changing Lakes, unveiled at the eleventh World Lake Conference in Nairobi, in October 2005, compares satellite images of the past few decades with those taken more recently.

Li Wei, head of the judging panel and Secretary General of China Environmental Protection Foundation said that China is now confronted with legacy ecological issues from a growth model that was GDP heavy and environmental protection light for a few decades.

For the first few decades, this system leaned heavily toward peg, owing to the US dollar s direct convertibility to gold. This brought significant stability to the global monetary order, following the competitive devaluations of the 1930s that some economists considered damaging.

Its financial markets high quality must be an important reason for America s relatively strong economic growth. Indeed, given a very low savings rate and high fiscal deficit over the past few decades, the US might otherwise have faced economic disaster.

Northern Germany and southern Scandinavia were the first regions to experience mass literacy, which was followed by faster economic development a few decades later. These are places where women s average age at marriage has been around 23 for some time.

In most industrialized countries effective regulatory programmes implemented over the past few decades have led to the introduction of cleaner technology, especially in the power generation and transport sectors, which has led to a significant improvement in overall air quality.

But, while strengthening such programs should be a high priority, we should not lose sight of how well middle income families have actually done over the past few decades. Unfortunately, the political debate is distorted by misleading statistics that grossly understate these gains.

In essence, it boils down to whether Europe in the decades ahead will be seen as a model for the future or as a museum of the past. Decisions taken during the next few years will be crucial to determining the outcome.