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

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

Of course, the United Nations has played a key role in the history of the past few decades.

Over the past few decades, Pakistan has been obliged to respond to the escalating steps of proliferation by our neighbour.

Elsewhere in the United Nations system, a more realistic approach recognizing developments of the past few decades has been adopted.

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.

In nearly every region of the world, demand was strongly driven by social, cultural and economic forces that had come together during the past few decades.

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.

But in the last few decades that has totally changed.

These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

The past few days have been awful.

like the grains on the chess board, doubles every few decades.

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

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.

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.

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.

Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.

I make it a few past a hundred.

I've thought it over these past few weeks...

More and more in the past few weeks.

First and foremost is economic growth, which for the past few years indeed, for the past two decades has been dismal. In countries where trade and investment is concentrated in ties with the US, this is a central issue in the bilateral relationship.

It has created the national coordination that had been missing in past decades.

Serious ethnic violence, which has occurred in past decades, could be the result.

We've been having strange weather the past few years.

These past few weeks have been a dreadful bore.

So much has been discovered these past few years.

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.

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

Thirdly, food security has improved in the past few years.

(f) Lower average life expectancy in the past few years.

Over the past few years, the NPT has faced serious challenges.

(c) A higher infant mortality rate in the past few years

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

The past six decades since 9 May 1945 have seen growth and change in this institution.

Over the past few years a number of reforms have been started.

I've got to know her pretty well during the past few days.

For the past few years... he seems to have been all right.

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

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

The total amount of remittances flows around the world has been increasing steadily over the past decades.

There were few unused houses in the village and ten were said to have been built over the past few years.

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.

But the past few months of tension have left us all very troubled.