over the period spanning January 1999 through January 2004

This will be a long and arduous task, spanning months and years.

The process of Security Council reform has been long and arduous, spanning some 12 plus years.

The landmark Agreement aimed to complete 141,000 km of standardized roadways spanning 32 Asian countries with linkages to Europe.

So you had social complexity spanning the whole continent, even if no polity did similarly. Today, you've got nation states.

Such a project would represent a paradigm shift in vaccine development. The current process is long (often spanning decades from concept to licensure), has a low probability of success (because of the limitations of animal models in predicting immune response and efficacy in humans), and is costly (often requiring hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a single vaccine).

So we assembled a team of experts, spanning Harvard, MIT, The American Heritage Dictionary, The Encyclopedia Britannica and even our proud sponsors, the Google.

Noting that the Babri Mosque with its history spanning five Centuries was the object of veneration and respect of Muslims all over the world

A bridge spanning the Indian Ocean, connecting the continents of Asia and Africa, is now being built through the New Asia Africa Strategic Partnership (NAASP).

At the same time, many commissions and committees anticipated in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, spanning areas like human rights and the civil service, remain to be created.

The illicit drug trade, spanning the borders of consumer, producer and transit countries, exposes local populations to illicit drugs all along the production chain throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Two Decades from Warsaw

The Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network came into force in July 2005, setting standards for a 141,000 kilometre network of roads spanning 32 countries and stretching from Asia's Pacific coasts to Europe.

Tencent Financial News on January 18, the USD to RMB middle prices is registered at 6.4401, a depreciation of 66 basis points compared with the last trading day, ending the rise spanning five consecutive days.

As detailed in Canada's Fourth Report on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, housing in Canada is governed by an extensive framework of legislation, policy and practice spanning all levels of government.

Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

In recent decades, cooperatives have demonstrated great vigour.

It served the world well for many decades.

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

Chileans have been building with confined masonry for decades.

The seventeenth century united this spiritual mission with imperial expansion, which eventually encompassed a landmass spanning 11 times zones. In the early twentieth century, the imperial and spiritual mission became one, as Russia became the bastion of world communism.

Spanning the middle ages to the Edwardian era, A Castle in England documents the families that lived in Scotney, with each story illustrated by a different, upcoming UK artist Isaac Lenkiewicz, Briony May Smith, William Exley, Becky Palmer and Isabel Greenberg.

Liberia had been torn apart by civil strife for decades.

Look a decade ago, look two decades ago markedly different.

But in the last few decades that has totally changed.

These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

Poverty alleviation efforts were undertaken for more than three decades.

The reform agenda has been with us for decades now.

This is a typewriter, a staple of every desktop for decades.

It has been two decades since the last global debt crisis.

The nature of Dutch emancipation policy has changed in recent decades.

Israel's intransigence had for decades obstructed the resolution of the crisis.

That evolution has taken on a new dimension in recent decades.

My delegation would like to express its appreciation for the Council's comprehensive approach to dealing with the maintenance of international peace and security, in the light of the growing volume and complexity of conflict situations spanning the various regions of the world.

Until now, Putin has been lucky, coming to power just as oil prices started to rise. Most Russian citizens credit him with two decades of rising living standards, following decades of decline.

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

They have also given funding for two decades to this whole program.

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.

The last two decades have been the champagne era for dirty lucre.

We should not repeat the mistakes that were made six decades ago.

And who can say what changes will come in the decades ahead?

The other thing that's worth considering is that we've made a huge investment over decades and decades, and tens of billions of dollars have gone into this investment that now is our inheritance.

If you remember that bald guy, you'll know that what has been stripped off of these trunks in the Pacific Northwest old growth forest is going to take decades and decades to come back.

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