It lost its innocence decades ago.

That was two decades before the first Opium War.

Two decades later, these efforts have proven to be a spectacular success.

The second stage of the war between the north and the south lasted two decades.

But it seems unlikely that a revived Japan, a decade or two hence, could become a global challenger economically or militarily, as was predicted two decades ago.

The Scandinavian countries showed the way two decades ago.

Abenomics goal is to escape two decades of deflation.

In 2001, after two decades of democracy, it was 2.6.

BRUSSELS Two decades ago, Ethiopia was a Cold War battlefield.

North Korea s nuclear weapons program has been a matter of concern for two decades.

Two decades later, Germany may be in a different mood.

In two decades time, high unemployment would creep back.

A decade later, that proposal still seems meaningful.

Two decades ago, the Berlin Wall was torn asunder by jubilant crowds.

In contrast, it takes about two decades for the US economy to double in size.

Nearly two decades later, he set off again, with his family in tow.

In less than two decades, cosmetic surgery has surged exponentially within China.

Nonetheless, almost two decades of economic stagnation have eroded Japan s regional clout.

It has been 20 years since Alan Greenspan became chairman of America s Federal Reserve Bank.

Two lost decades later, the guinea pig, Japan, might have a view on which approach works best.

McCain has experience as a naval aviator and more than two decades in the Senate.

Indeed, the situation may worsen for another decade or two before it improves.

Lured by abundant cheap labor, investors flooded to Zhuhai two decades ago.

After two decades of earthshaking change, Russia has still not had a real program of constructive reform.

In 1993, he left Ethiopia for good, living for more than two decades in the United States.

The Washington Consensus of free market reforms for developing countries ended more than two decades ago.

Moreover, two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, the spread of democracy has stalled.

We have lost two valuable decades to respond adequately to globalization and the crisis of liberal democracy and open societies.

AQIM exists because of the military coup that ended the Algerian Spring two decades ago.

The accord ended two decades of North South fighting that had killed and uprooted millions of people.

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

Moreover, although the Cold War is two decades in the past, South Korea and China remain divided nations.

Even after two decades of strong political and economic improvement, it still ranks low on most development indicators.

The Swiss scientist Charles Weissmann demonstrated this using mice in a series of experiments two decades ago.

Afghanistan is facing a legacy of human rights violations committed over more than two decades of armed conflict.

Now will we let the Gulf Coast languish for a decade or two like the South Bronx did?

After all, desertification and deforestation helped fuel the rise, two decades earlier, of the Maoist guerilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru.

For example, two decades ago, the conventional wisdom was that the US was in decline.

Frankly, with two decades of economic stagnation already behind it, Japan has more important matters to pursue.

And today, after two turbulent decades, they seem to be converging toward a more unified and sustainable framework.

Haruhiko Kuroda is now installed as the governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), faced with the daunting task of ending two decades of stagnation.

In paragraph 287 of the consolidated budget for 2004 2005, the Executive Director had also indicated that the contracts of two part time General Service (Other level) staff, sharing one post in the Financial Resources Management Service, would be converted to 80 per cent contracts.

There was no dearth of ideas and topics, participants argued, that existing textbooks neglected, and that should receive more attention two decades from now.

Indeed, the legacy of that dynamic was fully overcome in Europe only two decades ago.

But contempt for democracy has been Putin s stock in trade ever since he arrived in the Kremlin from Saint Petersburg two decades ago.