These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

Aware of the fact that Palestine refugees have, for over five decades, lost their homes, lands and means of livelihood,

Aware of the fact that Palestine refugees have, for over five decades, lost their homes, lands and means of livelihood,

China is the world's greatest anti poverty program over the last three decades.

Over 10,000 physicists and engineers from 85 countries around the world have come together over several decades to build this machine.

Such talks, to put it mildly, could take time. Norway and Russia negotiated over a far smaller territorial delimitation for four decades.

The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme has over many decades provided a framework for enhancing cooperation between India and African countries.

Over several decades, South Korea built one of the most patriarchal societies we know about.

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

Created over the last three decades were legislative bodies, an Executive Council, and a court system.

International concern and debate over energy has grown increasingly over the past two decades, with the issues of poverty alleviation (energy for the poor), environmental risks and climate change now taking centre stage.

Africa is the only continent in which food production has declined significantly over the past two decades.

They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world flattening digitization technologies, right?

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

Afghanistan is facing a legacy of human rights violations committed over more than two decades of armed conflict.

Mr. President, it was in your country, Sweden, just over three decades ago that environmental law was born.

As a victim of terrorism over the past two decades, India understands, and is fully supportive of, the need for United Nations action on counter terrorism.

The other thing that's worth considering is that we've made a huge investment over decades and decades, and tens of billions of dollars have gone into this investment that now is our inheritance.

Extensive experience gained over decades with integrated community based approaches must now be scaled up and implemented more widely

TOKYO A week, it is said, is a long time in politics. But events in Asia over the past week may define the region for decades to come.

Over two decades ago, the world insisted to Africa that markets must be liberalized, that economies must be structurally adjusted.

The United Nations system has learned many lessons from agency experience in supporting African development over the past two decades.

The international community has taken note of the enormous growth in United Nations peace operations over the past two decades.

In order to provide answers to the above questions and elaborate guidance for field personnel it was necessary to harness the operational experience of missions over the past decades.

They no longer had the attention of UNHCR and the international community, and for over three decades her Government had borne the full burden of hosting and protecting them.

He noted that Zambia was currently hosting over 200,000 refugees, mainly from Angola and the Great Lakes region, some of whom had been in the country for three decades.

It served the world well for many decades.

And I think that's been the fundamental problem over the last five decades, is that we have strived to understand cancer.

Furthermore, Iran has borne huge costs over the past three decades as a result of hosting almost 3 million Afghan refugees.

Over the last several decades, capacity development has been the central focus for driving sustainable development, becoming an integral part in the formulation of cross cutting and sectoral development interventions.

But the alternative could be worse a populist backlash that destroys much of what Mexico has achieved over the last two decades.

Over several decades, a succession of civilian military dictatorships in third world countries incurred massive debts, which are currently crippling these countries.

The limited success of Brazil's industrial development policies over the past two decades could be explained by both internal and external factors.

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

The United States started with a highly decentralized political and economic structure, but over the decades, has centralized portions of that structure.

The total fertility rate has dropped by 50 per cent, from 6.3 to 3 births per woman over the last two decades.

It's been known for decades what causes this malignancy.

Chileans have been building with confined masonry for decades.

The untenable injustice done to the Palestinian people is further proof of the failure of the international order over the past six decades.

Non communicable diseases are projected to become the most common causes of death by 2030. The number of diabetes cases, for example, is expected nearly to double over the next two decades.

So the diseases we have today, which reflect patterns in the system over the last several decades, are going to change dramatically over the next decade or so based on things like this.

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.

Liberia had been torn apart by civil strife for decades.

Poverty alleviation efforts were undertaken for more than three decades.

The reform agenda has been with us for decades now.