These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

Several business organizations have been in existence for many decades.

The revolution is going to continue for at least several more decades.

For several decades now, the number of young people in Haiti has been growing.

The issue of nuclear disarmment has been on the disarmament agenda for several decades.

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

At the current pace, some regions and countries will miss several of the MDGs by decades.

For several decades now, the society of the Niger has been undergoing tremendous transformations, both economic and social.

Projections indicate that several countries in the South are poised to make further advances in the coming decades.

Even at current growth rates it would need several decades to catch up with the moderately developed countries.

4. The issue of nuclear weapon free zones has attracted the interest of the international community for several decades.

The number of in orbit catalogued objects has been increasing at a relatively linear rate for the past several decades.

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

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

The importance of maintaining sound macroeconomic policy, reflected in a stable exchange rate and low inflation, has been underscored for several decades.

We share the view that the profound changes in international relations over the past several decades fully warrant expansion of Council membership.

The Committee also takes note of the difficulties caused by the fact that Lebanon has hosted a great number of refugees for several decades.

The Committee also takes note of the difficulties caused by the fact that Lebanon has hosted a great number of refugees for several decades.

The models cannot provide accurate predictions of the space environment several decades into the future, but they can evaluate the relative influences of different operational practices.

Nevertheless, the abundances of many of the replacements for ozone depleting substances (ODSs) still are increasing, and EESC will remain above pre 1980 levels for several decades.

In the past two decades there have been several instances of minors being forcibly married to octogenarians with physical disabilities and then legally taken out of India.

Over the past several decades, FDI and strategic alliances and joint ventures have begun contributing to vertical diversification through the establishment of processing plants in developing countries.

Several decades ago, the American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that economic prosperity in developing countries with weak governing institutions would not necessarily lead to political stability.

Moreover, the Commission on Human Rights has been a textbook case of political manipulation through gross selectivity and the application of double standards over the past several decades.

For several decades now, our country has also contributed to international efforts to establish peace and security in regions of conflict and severe crisis, particularly in the Middle East.

For several decades, structural transformation policies have sought to move least developed countries away from their overwhelming dependence on agriculture however, most of these economies remain based on agriculture.

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.

Formerly classified data on the thickness of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, gathered by the United States Navy over several decades, was made available in the public domain in 1997.

Two Decades from Warsaw

Over the following decades, the region was the scene of several major wars, not to mention countless acts of violence and tragic incidents which produced suffering, anger and bitterness on all sides.

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.

The Commission should approach the work programme flexibly, to enable it to conclude its work on some topics that had been on its agenda for several decades or ones whose importance was unquestionable.

Past experience and events of the past several decades throughout the world have proven the importance of creating effective mechanisms to combat the most serious crimes, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Given these favorable conditions, the US has already begun on shoring its industry a process that will most likely continue for several decades. As other advanced economies become increasingly services based, the US is reindustrializing.

The setback in economic and social progress points to the vulnerability of small States to natural disasters and the way in which several decades of progress can be wiped out in a matter of hours.

On 26 November 1965, Asterix, the first French satellite, was launched and within several decades space activities gained a place in the world, calling for considerable stakes in the industry, research, culture and defence sectors.

And it went on for decades.

Similarly, Republicans glibly touted the Bush tax cuts the equivalent of which President Bush's father, President George H. W. Bush, two decades ago called voodoo economics as the acme of economic wisdom. They paid no heed to the large drag that Bush's unbalancing of America's public finances will impose on the US economy over the next several 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).

Over several decades, UNMOGIP has constructed and added premises to its headquarters site to accommodate transport workshops, communications and information technology offices and various auxiliary functions, including accommodations for Pakistani Army guards and drivers for UNMOGIP.

15. Over a period of several decades alternative development as a means of reducing illicit cultivation has come to be widely recognized by the international community as an indispensable component of the international drug control strategy.

With intelligent control and communications, smarter sensing devices allow the development of more capable unmanned autonomous vehicles, which are only starting to play the significant military and commercial roles that have been forecast for several decades.

For several decades, that tendency has been offset by ever more intensive trading of tradable goods, often passing through many countries in complex supply chains. In the future, however, the shift to non tradable consumption may dominate.

Fast forward more than two decades Apple launches the iPhone in China and censors the Dalai Lama out along with several other politically sensitive applications at the request of the Chinese government for its Chinese app store.