Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.

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

So much has been discovered these past few years.

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

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

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

The total number of students has increased rapidly over the past few years.

In the past few years the building of social housing has increased dramatically.

11. Economic indicators for Djibouti have been declining in the past few years.

ESA contracts with Norwegian companies have also increased significantly during the past few years.

Over the past few years, UNITAR has been trying hard to solve this matter.

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

Over the past few years, we have witnessed considerable change in attitudes towards nuclear energy.

The past few years have seen dramatic growth worldwide in the number of such agreements.

The impressive growth of world trade over the past few years attests to this fact.

However, licence revenue derived from foreign fishing vessels has decreased drastically over the past few years.

5. Despite the difficulties, the past few years are replete with examples of diversification success stories.

443. Rapid advances have been made in underwater acoustic communications technology in the past few years.

As you know, we've expanded much faster in the past few years... than we ever expected.

So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.

The virus has contributed to a deterioration of our human development indices over the past few years.

The proportion of heavy smokers has declined among both men and women over the past few years.

314. Regrettably this has not proved sufficient for the promotion of culture over the past few years.

Its deliberations focused primarily on the past few years of the University s journey into the next century.

So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.

Telecommunications costs had quadrupled over the past few years to the current level of US 4 million annually.

In the past few years, there has been an increase in the number of vehicles operating in Fiji.

11. The central political processes of the United Nations had shown great vitality over the past few years.

227. In terms of trends, the production of cereals and pulses has declined in the past few years.

Over the past few years, there has been a partial breakdown in the coverage of agricultural extension services.

583. During the past few years Poland received financial support from the European Union for the conservation of

The profile of Somali women and support of their rights has made some progress over the past few years.

Under the circumstances, the Investment Management Service has received a number of audit recommendations in the past few years.

Over the past few years we have been gradually reducing their number and we are continuing to do so.

The second major area of attention in the past few years has been the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

The Government of Turkey, in the past few years, has taken severe action against draft evaders and conscientious objectors.

Moreover, the consensus achieved within this Committee over the past few years has encouraged and inspired all of us.

And for the past few years, the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit has seconded a gender expert to UNIFEM in Kosovo.

In short, the past few years have continued to underscore the central importance of the Agency's role in combating proliferation.

Women's participation in the Olympic Games has dramatically increased over the past few years, as indicated by the chart below

Our challenge now is to transform the breakthroughs of the past few years into a Monterrey based MDG performance pact.

At Headquarters, the Procurement Service has been exploring opportunities for joint sourcing for the past few years, whenever opportunities arise.