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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

Although North Korea s nuclear ambitions are worrying and destabilizing, China s rise is the key strategic issue in East Asia. For three decades, its economy has grown by 8 to 10 annually.

Unfortunately, in our agricultural system, we haven't done a good job in the last three decades of exporting those technologies around the world.

For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility . A funny, thoughtful talk with occasional banjo.

The number of tourists has grown impressively over the past three decades, reaching 760 million in 2004 compared to about 160 million in 1970.

For more than three decades, Indonesian reformists struggled against the crushing weight of an authoritarian regime, until it became clear that our only way out of the Asian crisis was through democratic reform.

It served the world well for many decades.

Over the last three decades, prices in the US and Europe have tended to follow three slow moving, related boom bust cycles. All previous peaks were followed by several years of declining prices (in real terms).

Over the last three decades, prices in the US and Europe have tended to follow three slow moving, related boom bust cycles. All previous peaks were followed by several years of declining prices (in real terms).

Analysts say it marks the Trump administration and Republican congressional parliament a step closer to completing the nation's largest tax relief program in three decades.

But, after more than three decades of active research and development, no clinically viable product has obtained regulatory approval, owing to the significant scientific challenges.

McIntyre notes that the same view had been proposed three decades earlier in J. C. Bluntschli, Das Moderne Völkerrecht der Civiliserten Staaten 538, 402 (1878).

For almost three decades, sustainable development has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising future generations ability to meet their needs. Related policies have reflected the view that sustainable development rests on three equal pillars the economy, society, and the environment.

But many people today philosophers, artists, doctors, scientists are taking a new look at what I call the third act, the last three decades of life.

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

Chileans have been building with confined masonry for decades.

We have seen three very visible cases of such growth boosts in three different decades. South Korea liberalized trade in 1965, Chile in 1974, and India in 1991 all saw annual growth rates increase by several percentage points thereafter.

These developments, along with a more stable framework for monetary and fiscal policy, could lead to the type of double digit growth that China has enjoyed for the past three decades. It is up to India's policymakers to realize this ambition.

Afghanistan has been at war for three decades, and that war is spreading to Pakistan and beyond. A time out needs to be called so that the players, including President elect Barack Obama, can negotiate a new bargain for the region.