These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

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

International inequalities, while large three decades ago, have worsened ever since.

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

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.

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

Since then, there have been several joint activities.

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.

Four decades have passed since the oil price shocks of the 1970 s.

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.

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.

While the progress made by the Commission had been used by States and recognized by international courts for several decades, it had been barely three years since the final result had entered the diplomatic sphere of the General Assembly.

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 past six decades since 9 May 1945 have seen growth and change in this institution.

Growth estimates since the 2008 crisis have been revised downward several times.

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

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

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.

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

The four decades since The Limits of Growth have shown that we need more of it, not less.

Of course, compared to Japan s two lost decades since 1990, even this year s triple disaster pales in significance.

But the decades since his death have confirmed that there is no escaping the conflicting sovereignties of states.

But, in the decades since, the Arab world s rulers, regimes, and practices seemed to have remained firmly entrenched.

They have changed their lineup several times since their formation on 6 May 1996.

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.

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

Instead, cities like New York and London have experienced sharp increases in population since 1990, after decades of decline.

Since the two countries separation is now more than six decades old, that anomaly is unlikely to be repeated.

Three decades have elapsed since the introduction of this idea for the very first time by Iran in 1974.

This document has been revised several times since its first promulgation in 1948 at independence.

Since 2003, UN Habitat has undertaken several initiatives to strengthen monitoring and self evaluation activities.

Authorities in North Kivu have since arrested several persons with alleged connections to Mr. Nkunda.

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

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