For others it has had a wider connotation for several decades.

For several decades now, the number of young people in Haiti has been growing.

Fetal cells have been documented to persist and multiply in the mother for several decades.

These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

Not everyone subscribed to this theory, but it was the West's strongest political force for several decades.

Hess was the author of a textbook on chemistry that was the standard Russian work for several decades.

Plot It is the late 5th century and Britain has been free of Roman rule for several decades.

For several decades now, the society of the Niger has been undergoing tremendous transformations, both economic and social.

Beyond undermining the gene centered theories of evolution that have dominated public consciousness for several decades, these developments call for new philosophical frameworks.

Several decades from now, reprocessing might offer a safe means of spent fuel disposal.

The last several decades have seen the city s apartments becoming smaller and more expensive.

Several Arab dictators who had held power for decades have already been ousted or forced to announce that they will retire.

Construction drafts for a fixed link were presented as early as the 1850s, with several suggestions appearing in the following decades.

Over several decades, South Korea built one of the most patriarchal societies we know about.

The importance of maintaining sound macroeconomic policy, reflected in a stable exchange rate and low inflation, has been underscored for several decades.

The last several decades have seen an increased concentration of media ownership by large private entities.

At the current pace, some regions and countries will miss several of the MDGs by decades.

Given these favorable conditions, the US has already begun on shoring its industry a process that will most likely continue for several decades.

For developing countries, this source of income can be substantial over several decades, and is needed by governments for investment in infrastructure, health care, education, etc.

Developed countries currencies have been floating against each other for several decades, but this has been only partly true of emerging and developing countries.

In the 1910's, American workplace injuries began to fall in virtually every industry, except coal mining (where injury rates remained high for several decades).

The threshing machine, which was invented in 1794 but not widely used for several more decades, simplified the operation and allowed the use of animal power.

Equally important was the end of stability with a series of foreign invasions of Italy known as the Italian Wars that would continue for several decades.

Advances in numerical weather forecasting during the past several decades have extended our ability to see into the future.

Over the next two decades, he was imprisoned several times, and held under house arrest when not in prison.

Child modeling has become a distinct activity because of the explosion of commercial media over the past several decades.

The velocity for a manned round trip of a few decades to even the nearest star is several thousand times greater than those of present space vehicles.

After an absence lasting several decades, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that France will rejoin the NATO integrated command.

However, For several decades, Russian rulers did not require military service from Finland operations and defence were mostly taken care by Russian troops based in the Grand Duchy.

In elections until 1998, post offices were used for several decades as early voting stations (post offices now belong to a commercial company, earlier on a national administration).

Over 10,000 physicists and engineers from 85 countries around the world have come together over several decades to build this machine.

During the several decades of war, a number of de facto districts were created and district administrators were appointed to them.

For several decades now, our country has also contributed to international efforts to establish peace and security in regions of conflict and severe crisis, particularly in the Middle East.

Romanian society nowadays is dealing with the consequences of decades of terror and lies, of demagogy and poverty that scarred several generations.

The two books are the most academically respected histories in decades they are very comprehensive and include several new and important theories.

Over several decades, a succession of civilian military dictatorships in third world countries incurred massive debts, which are currently crippling these countries.

Over the last several decades, capacity development has been the central focus for driving sustainable development, becoming an integral part in the formulation of cross cutting and sectoral development interventions.

For decades, government has been demonized.

Smulders published his work with the Dutch Roman Catholic medical association, and this was the official rhythm method promoted over the next several decades.

However, the mean incubation period of the disease is 14 years, and cases were reported with latencies of 40 years or more for those who were most genetically resilient, continuing to appear for several more decades.

Several decades ago, a number of European and American intellectuals, often with a background in Marxism, developed a post modern critique of the written word.

Although Ibn al Haytham (965 1039) was the first to describe camera obscura, Shen was the first in China to do so, several decades later.

This situation had persisted for two decades.

Public private overlap With the increase over the last several decades in public service provided by private entities, especially in Britain and the United States, some have called for increased political accountability mechanisms for otherwise non political entities.

They paid no heed to the large drag that Bush's unbalancing of America's public finances will impose on the US economy over the next several decades.