So, the good news of the last decade is just a glimmer of hope.

But in the last few decades that has totally changed.

The situation improved in the recent two decades.

McKinley was open to persuasion by U.S. expansionists and by annexationists from Hawaii.

Tourism Tourism in Chile has experienced sustained growth over the last few decades.

And what's been taking up the slack in the last few decades?

In the last few decades, social policy in most Western European countries has moved away from redistribution.

These forests still represent the typical Southern Brazilian landscape in spite of ruthless deforestation in the past decades.

In 2011, Tel Aviv had an unemployment rate of 4.4 percent.

Over the last three decades, increased economic and trade integration has bolstered the region s growth.

Orchestra The Buenos Aires Philharmonic is an Argentine orchestra based in Buenos Aires.

NEW YORK One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world s collective conscience.

Empirical evidence shows that the elasticity of world trade to world income has increased over recent decades .

To be sure, many people have lamented the loss of brilliant minds to the financial sector over the past few decades.

In the meantime, the minority that has benefited financially over the past two decades is unlikely to give up its advantages without a fight.

This would seem to corroborate the observation that the percentage of Jews in Jerusalem has declined over the past four decades.

Other countries have grown rapidly in recent decades without relying on external surpluses.

China has a high level of economic inequality, which has increased in the past few decades.

Some people in the last decade or two have started creating artwork with technology.

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

As in all developing countries, farmers in Africa are flocking to the cities.

European missionaries introduced Christianity to Senegal and the Casamance in the 19th century.

In recent decades, dozens of modern temples have been built throughout the city.

Últimas Décadas de Portugal, l.º e 2.º vols., Lisbon, Fernando Pereira, 1980 and 1981.

Teenage birth rates in the U.S. are at the lowest level in U.S. history.

After the most contested and intense elections of the last decade, Venezuela will add six more years to the administration that began in 1999 with Hugo Chávez Frías.

Over the past three decades, the US has been able to grow at an average annual rate of around 2.5 .

She is the only artist to date to have a number one single on a Billboard chart in each of the past six decades.

In the past half century price stability has been the exception rather than the rule .

MDS Black characters in the media as a whole went through very little changes over the last decades.

With the exception of changes in inventories , these developments are broadly consistent with the characteristics of recoveries observed in the past few decades in the euro area .

And I think that's been the fundamental problem over the last five decades, is that we have strived to understand cancer.

Over the last two decades, lobbyists have worked to harmonize and strengthen a far stricter and globally enforceable IP regime.

And in recent decades, a lot of the funding for shop class has gone away entirely.

Experience over the last few decades has shown , however , that discretionary fiscal fine tuning , aimed at stabilising the economy , often proves to be pro cyclical .

Many believe the rapid increase in cancer rates is a result of environmental pollution from the last few decades of intense growth in China.

The strike of garment workers and the opposition rally produced the biggest ever street demonstration in Cambodia in recent decades.

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

These misconceptions are clearly evident in government leaders speeches over the past two decades.

As is well known, the United States economy has grown significantly over the past three decades, but the median family s income has not.

Median household income has grown at an average annual rate above 3 in the last decades almost twice the OECD average.

Indeed, strong Chinese demand has supported its trading partners export led growth for much of the past three decades.

Following the biggest popular protest of the last decades in Portugal, on September 15, 2012, every week people have been taking to the streets.

With their complex reproductive needs and permeable skins, amphibians are often ecological indicators and in recent decades there has been a dramatic decline in amphibian populations for many species around the globe.

The annual growth rate of MFI loans to nonfinancial corporations increased in 2007 , reaching a very high level by the standards of the past three decades .