During the past five years, there has been impressive progress in many areas.

Consider Iraq, the most divisive issue in American politics for the past five years.

There is no doubt that much has been achieved over the past five years.

The average growth of our economy is about 15 percent for the past five years.

Over 40 women experts have contributed articles to Disarmament Forum in the past five years.

Moreover, over the past 25 years, a severe financial crisis regional or global has erupted every four or five years.

And only four countries sustained a growth rate of 7 or more over the past five years.

Prices for many commodities have doubled over the past couple of years. Oil prices have risen almost 400 in the last five years.

During the past five years, the consumer price index has increased at an annual rate of just 1.5 .

Real demand for migrant workers in member States, by sectors of the economy, over the past five years

In the past five years, Pakistan had taken a number of important steps to strengthen its criminal justice apparatus.

It is, indeed, an opportune time to review the progress that we have made in the past five years.

Over the past five years there has, in general terms, been a decrease in the levels of armed conflict.

So why did Central America's leaders sign the agreement? The region's economies have not experienced significant growth in the past five years (nor have they grown more than 5 annually in the past 20 years).

The interesting part is that we continue to grow 15 percent every year for the past five years without water.

This is good because over the past five years, there have been times when I've felt this is Mission Impossible.

Coca cultivation has been slashed by a quarter in the past five years, and seizures of cocaine have almost doubled.

And we honor the efforts of many individuals and organizations that advocated for his release over the past five years.

Over the past five years, the following crimes, which are subject to punishment under the above mentioned articles, were committed

They include the problems of human development noted at the Millennium Summit, which have increased in the past five years.

The economic and physical capital costs to the Palestinian economy of the past five years of hostilities continue to mount.

And every business I've been working on over the past five years, I'm trying to lower each one of these elements.

We should untangle ourselves from past wrangles and look towards the 2006 Review Conference and five to 10 years beyond it.

For the past five years, his delegation had reiterated the need for the peace process to be put back on track.

The report provides a review of the main events of the past five years that have shaped the environment of protection.

Whether the other projects, all of which have been initiated in the past five years, are on schedule remains to be seen.

Asia has led the way, but the past five years have been the best Latin American and Africa have enjoyed in decades.

But the surplus has fallen sharply in the past five years, from roughly 6 of GDP in 2007 to only 1 now.

Over the past five years, my Government has more than doubled Ireland's official development assistance (ODA) from 254 million to 545 million.

A clinic for adolescents has been functioning in the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Guatemala City for the past five years.

(a) Increasing number of periodic benefit payments made per annum (annual average increase of 2.8 per cent) over the past five years.

In the past five years, there had been virtually no convictions for racist crimes, which showed that such acts were extremely rare.

For the past five years, I've been researching, working with biologists and traveling all over the world to find continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older.

But there also is some evidence that innovation is slowing perhaps the result of reduced investment in research in the past five years.

In South Africa, the number of seized meth laboratories has consistently gone up for the past five years, while domestic consumption has increased.

That is why the absence of any inflationary response to the Fed s massive bond purchases in the past five years seems so puzzling.

In more than 40 past episodes in which GDP fell and private investment declined by 10 , recovery took an average of five years.

There was a consistent growth in resources contributions over the past five years, from 2.4 billion in 2000 to 4.0 billion in 2004.

It is therefore encouraging to note that over the past five years several countries have adopted specific policies or legislation concerning internal displacement.

During the past quarter century, but especially over the five years leading up to 2008, the world seemed to revolve around the American consumer.

We were overjoyed to wear it because for the past five years, the Hanoi communist regime has painted people like us as subversive elements.

Table 2 provides the figures of the statement on income and expenditure and changes in reserves and fund balances over the past five years.

Figure 2 provides a graphic comparison of total budget, funds available and overall expenditures for the past five years for the Annual Programme Fund.

Figure 3 provides a graphic comparison of total budget, funds available and overall expenditures for the past five years for the Supplementary Programme Fund.

Table 2 provides the figures of the statement on income and expenditure and changes in reserves and fund balances over the past five years.