Madagascar has seen a sharp rise in kidnapping followed by extortion during the past two years.

Over 500,000 videos have been uploaded to the Internet from Syria during the past two years.

Europe, too, has suffered from appalling atrocities over the past two years in Russia, Turkey, Spain and the United Kingdom.

However, the initiatives undertaken in the last two years have demonstrated the present government's commitment to fostering equality.

It should be noted that no export of war materiel from Switzerland to the Sudan has been authorized during the past two years.

For two years, sea levels have declined.

This slide sums up thousands of pages of technical documents that we've been working on over the past two years.

We are discussing the issue of nuclear weapons today against the backdrop of our successive failures over the past couple of years, and particularly in 2005.

Over the last two years, some progress has ostensibly been made.

In 2002, the commercial sector was badly affected by the repercussions of the socio political unrest of the previous two years.

Over the past two years, the PSI has grown to a global dimension.

We have seen the last part of this cycle over the last two years.

Over the past two years, the Green Economy has gone from theory to practice.

More importantly, underground bands have been burgeoning over the last two years.

Afghanistan's formal justice system has, over the past two years, become more functional following training, infrastructural developments and some key legislation.

And, indeed, the rate of change in Myanmar over the last two years has been nothing short of remarkable.

For two years, police have waged an intense campaign against women and young people.

In the past two years, Africa has seen successful coups in Niger, Guinea, Madagascar, and Mauritania.

Over the past 2 years, a National Workshop and Local Workshops have been held.

A decrease in the number of suicide attacks and drone strikes were the major contributing factors... the security situation is slowly improving as violence has decreased 24 percent in the last two years.

He's a colleague. He allowed his cell phone to be tracked every two hours, 24 7, 365 days out of the year for the last two years, everywhere he went.

Over the last two years, Saudi Arabia has provided more than 3 billion to Yemen.

Over the past two years, we have made a modest beginning in improving the effectiveness of the First Committee's methods of work.

On operational issues, however, the involvement of the international community has been minimal, at least over the past two years.

Over the past two years, capacity building exercises have been held for the prevention of the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.

MILAN Over the past two years, industrial countries have experienced bouts of severe financial instability.

I believe that it was not, and that two important factors have come into play in the last two years.

In the past two years, the Agency has adopted a streamlined approach in producing a short and simple draft resolution.

The housing bubble induced Americans to live beyond their means net savings has been negative for the past couple of years.

Iraqi statistics, which define unemployment more expansively, show rates in percent declining from the mid twenties to the teens in the past two years.

Irrespective of their outcome, there are a number of overarching challenges on which we will need to continue to focus if we are to see the dividends of our efforts over the past two years.

Over the past two years, the Brazilian Government has been working ever more incisively to implement public policies that have a positive impact on the situation of inequality that exists in the country.

Unfortunately, for the past two years, Pakistan has been suffering as much or perhaps more than Afghanistan has suffered.

In just the last two years, 51,000 schools were opened and 680,000 teachers appointed.

The very rise of that specter over the past two years has been a setback for Africa s democratic development.

Over the last two years, the Agency has built up a working capital reserve equal to one month's operational requirements.

This function has been performed for the past two years by the Director of the Regional and Technical Cooperation Division in addition to his normal duties.

Following the implementation of NEEDS, in the past two years our agricultural production has grown by about 7 per cent annually.

Q How do you evaluate the Iranian blogosphere of recent two years? Are you blogging? How do you see the female presence on the Iranian web?

The sharp drop in household wealth over the past two years, however, put an end to that.

But if the lessons of the past two years are any guide, the wheels of violence will keep on turning.

He has supported factionalization in the government, and, when necessary, has weakened factions that he previously supported. Most importantly, he has ensured that Iran s presidents remain weak, regardless of their agenda or popularity.

We ask the Government of the United States of America to cease immediately the implementation of measures adopted over the past two years with a view to strengthening and deepening the impact of its economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

This time, however, things were not what they seemed, because the Middle East has undergone a significant change in the past two years.

Production of paddy rice, the main staple crop, has increased by 20 per cent over the past two years but has reached only 50 per cent of the pre war level.