Poverty alleviation efforts were undertaken for more than three decades.

This institution is government backed and it has been the case for the past three decades.

For nearly three decades, the Committee had fulfilled its mandate in an effective and responsible manner.

The last three decades, we have done about three and a half million surgeries, a vast majority of them for the poor people.

In the past three decades, the wage was adjusted 18 times.

This transformation took only about three decades, from 1940 to 1970.

The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades.

Three decades have elapsed since the introduction of this idea for the very first time by Iran in 1974.

Four decades later, the world consumes between three and six barrels of oil for every one that it finds.

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

Zambia's economic policies have faced a number of challenges in the past three decades.

Tourism, which has been the engine of our national economic growth for the past three decades, has suffered a sharp decline.

Major social unrest cannot be ruled out. The one certainty is that the next three decades will not mirror the last three.

Before the tsunami, Aceh saw three decades of armed conflict caused by perceived economic injustices.

For nearly three decades, arrangements for consultation of the Economic and Social Council with NGOs were governed by resolution 1296 (XLIV) of 23 May 1968.

We have trained three times as many lawyers and investigators in the past 10 years as in the three decades preceding the genocide.

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

Lebanon's message to the Assembly is that of a small country that has endured wars, occupation and conspiracies for more than three decades.

Today, all States remain in full agreement with that conclusion, which was reached almost three decades ago.

For over three decades, the country had additionally sought, inter alia, to link education with sustainable development and make it accessible to both sexes.

Other health metrics are equally disappointing, with data indicating poorer health outcomes for Americans throughout their lives. And, for at least three decades, matters have been getting worse.

The report also calls for consideration to be given to the search for the truth about the events of the past three decades and the question of reparations.

It was a Japanese scientist who first undertook serious field studies of the Bonobo, almost three decades ago.

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

For three decades, reform was a word reserved for the Chinese side of the Sino American relationship. The US, one hopes, will grow to like the sound of it.

It's another milestone in more than three decades' worth of progress in tackling one of humanity's major health challenges.'

And it went on for decades.

The isolated provinces to which most refugees are returning are among the most affected by almost three decades of conflict.

In 1995 the life expectancy of women was 72.3 years, an increase of 10 years over the last three decades.

The market friendly development strategies that created the so called Asian economic miracle, for example, delivered hundreds of millions of people from poverty in less than three decades.

In the last three decades, its volume has shrunk by roughly three quarters. As the University of Laval s Louis Fortier puts it, we are three quarters of the way to ice free summers in the Arctic Ocean.

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

The values of integrity, transparency and accountability in public administration have enjoyed a resurgence within the past three decades or so.

Female life expectancy was 6.1 years higher in 1995, making a total increase of 10 years over the past three 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.

For three decades, armed conflict smouldered in Aceh, until it became clear to both sides that the only way out of a tragic situation was the way of peace.

Given the variety and complexity of the armed conflicts of the past three decades, however, the wording of this provision has not always been suitable for classifying mercenary activities.

It served the world well for many decades.

So these poorest two billion will, in the next decades, increase to three billion, and they will thereafter increase to four billion.

Should I be outraged at this intrusion on my privacy? Has the world of George Orwell s 1984 finally arrived, three decades late?

Over the last three decades, Saudi Arabia has contributed an annual average of 4 per cent of its GDP to foreign aid.

The polarization resulting from more than three decades of armed conflict raises serious obstacles to their integration in the indigenous local population.

The complex and sensitive environment that affected the occupied Arab territories during the past three decades prevented the realization of this objective.

This snarled three way dispute, if not carefully untangled, holds many dangers. Turkey, which for nearly two decades has proclaimed its support for Azerbaijan, publicly conditioned rapprochement with Armenia on Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan.