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

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

These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

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

Alarmingly, this research has decreased over the last three decades.

Production is expected to last for up to four decades.

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.

Rigorous conservation efforts has increased their population the last few decades.

The water surface has shrunk by over the last three decades.

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

Consider, for example, Latin America s growth model of the last two decades.

And that is what China s government delivered in the last few decades.

Last month, an unprecedented new low was reached after decades of decline.

So the diseases we have today, which reflect patterns in the system over the last several decades, are going to change dramatically over the next decade or so based on things like this.

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

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

In the last three decades, its volume has shrunk by roughly three quarters.

Severe mismanagement by European politicians has caused damage that will last for decades.

Whereas China s omnipresence has provoked hostility in several African countries a presidential candidate in Zambia even campaigned on an explicitly anti Chinese platform Indian businesses have faced no such reaction in the last two decades.

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

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

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, however, an intellectual revolution occurred.

In the last few decades, Ümraniye has built a lively shopping and business district.

Malign neoplasm ranks second (18 per cent) and their number increased in last decades.

In the last 12 months, I conducted several country visits.

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

In the case of massacres endured in the twentieth century, such storytelling can last decades.

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

Globalization proceeded at a rapid pace through much of the last century, and at a particularly accelerated rate during its last two decades.

China s economy grew by 10 per year for the last three decades, but slowed to 7.8 last year and risks a hard landing.

Several bloggers and Facebook users were arrested in last twelve months.

Expulsions of Christians occurred several times in the last 10 years.

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

Perhaps understandably, most citizens of West European states accustomed to the political stability and economic prosperity of the last several decades do not want to give up the benefits that the European integration process has brought to them.

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.

In the last six decades, all power has been concentrated in the hands of one person.

Indeed, the last time Britain had a strong European voice was more than two decades ago.

Mortality has decreased over the last few decades due to better recognition and improvement in care.

Precipitation, however, has been increasing in the last few decades, with accumulated rain reaching per year.

Created over the last three decades were legislative bodies, an Executive Council, and a court system.

This Hall has heard enough high sounding declarations to last us for some decades to come.

Several controversial provisions included in the government s last budget are being reviewed.

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.