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

Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

Over two decades ago, the world insisted to Africa that markets must be liberalized, that economies must be structurally adjusted.

As of 2004, 81 of all positions in the military are open to women, compared to 56 two decades ago.

And in Papua New Guinea, they were making stone axes until two decades ago, just as a course of practical matters.

And this is an insight that came, about two decades ago, from a person that I'm very fortunate to work with, David Kaplan.

While two decades ago the effectiveness of south south cooperation may have been limited, many developing countries have since acquired substantial technical and policy expertise.

Two Decades from Warsaw

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

One of the most dreadful decades of Balkan history ended five years ago.

Two years ago, three years ago, about four years ago, markets did well.

The challenge of putting youth at the centre of development strategies can be compared to the challenge, two decades ago, of putting women and gender issues on the development agenda.

That's two days ago.

The economic situation, which is still very precarious, with many people living close to starvation, constitutes another key challenge. Two examples suffice to illustrate the impact the price of rice has tripled while consumption of electricity is down by two thirds from two decades ago.

Yet we're still dealing with a lot of the same challenges as many decades ago.

I arrived two weeks ago.

Two years ago that remained an informal discussion, but the consensus resolution we adopted two years ago reflected those advances.

When the Soviet Union collapsed more than two decades ago, and Ukraine opted for independence, many expected the country to do better than Russia in the years to come. But events turned out differently.

The Swiss scientist Charles Weissmann demonstrated this using mice in a series of experiments two decades ago. Using recently developed zinc finger nuclease technology, any given gene can be removed from an animal s DNA.

And this was two weeks ago.

The accident happened two years ago.

The accident happened two hours ago.

I quit smoking two years ago.

They moved here two years ago.

She visited Kanazawa two years ago.

It is still essentially the document that was drafted at the San Francisco Conference six decades ago.

Two decades ago, the international community was entering the final phase of efforts to secure peace in Bosnia. But there were also lingering conflicts in Croatia, notably in the Eastern Slavonia region, adjacent to Serbia.

It was a Japanese scientist who first undertook serious field studies of the Bonobo, almost three decades ago.

Until a few decades ago, it was possible to think of endogenous development, although the idea was debatable.

Mr. President, it was in your country, Sweden, just over three decades ago that environmental law was born.

This photo was taken two weeks ago.

Two years ago, you saw this creature.

This dog was born two months ago.

This bridge was built two years ago.

I came to Japan two years ago.

I lived in Sasayama two years ago.

I bought a camera two days ago.

I caught a cold two days ago.

He came to Japan two years ago.

I ate it once two years ago.

Two years ago I went to China.

A similar dynamic is evident in European history, particularly in the revolutions and counter revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indeed, the legacy of that dynamic was fully overcome in Europe only two decades ago.

As far as computers are concerned, whether Chinese checkers or chess, defeating humans was already a clinch decades ago.

We should recall that the last reform of the United Nations was in 1963, a good four decades ago.

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