In the past few decades, Japan has become a sleeping tiger.

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

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

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

Experience with fiscal policy over the past few decades is clear.

On the other hand, the last few decades have seen the complete marginalization of the indigenous people.

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

(c) Ensuring that the effective atmospheric monitoring systems put into place over the past few decades are maintained.

Over the last few decades there has been an increase with occurrences of this specific type of adenoma.

These strong arm tactics stand out even more against the deftness of Chinese diplomacy over the last few decades.

Maligned neoplasm are in second place (18 ), and their number has risen in the last few decades.

Over the past few decades, most central banks have focused on price stability as their single and overriding objective.

The disease was rare in Caucasians until the last few decades, and incidence rate fluctuates from country to country.

Over the past few decades, Africa has suffered more from armed conflicts than any other continent.

Similar economic problems permeate the history of the last few decades, from South Korea to Western Europe to the US.

Over the last few decades, the country has used mining revenues to pave roads, strengthen law enforcement, advance education, and revitalize cities and towns.

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

Historically, the university has excelled in the study of education, but in the last few decades it has also gained respect in the sciences.

Over the past few decades, the principles and foundations of public administration have experienced a radical transformation, owing to two major changes in the world.

Power over information is much more widely distributed today than even a few decades ago.

Malign neoplasm is in second place with 18 per cent and its number increased in the last few decades.

For the last 1000 years, western and highland regions have been growing significantly drier, but in the past few decades, severe drought has become much more frequent.

The quality of American public services has deteriorated steadily over the past few decades, while that of Chinese public services has improved dramatically.

Latin American countries would thus benefit from an open, non ideological, and critical analysis of development experiences in the past few decades.

In fact, in some ways, chess is as popular and successful today as at any point in the last few decades. Chess lends itself very well to Internet play, and fans can follow top level tournaments in real time, often with commentary.

We've been spending the last few decades accumulating a very powerful backlog of technologies for saving and substituting for oil, and no one had bothered to add them up before.

Over the past few decades, responding to steadily growing demand, the system has seen a welcome expansion in its membership as well as in the scale and scope of its activities.

Over the last few decades, there has been increasing convergence towards a set of non jurisdiction specific, widely recognized financial reporting standards.

Over the last few decades, China has begun to practice modern contract law and joined the World Trade Organization, committing itself to international rules governing trade and investment.

The great changes operated in the last few decades, the multiple population movement due to constant wars and natural disasters have been changing social practices in a radical manner.

The irrational, obsessive promises made by scientists and physicians in the past few decades have, in a way, institutionalized the denial of death.

Over the past few decades, anti nuclear activists, together with their political representatives in the Green Party, have succeeded in mobilizing hundreds of thousands of protesters.

During the recent decades what is actually happening in Brazil is an accentuated and systematic decline in the total fertility rate, which decelerated the annual population growth.

In the past few years mobile reverse auction have evolved.

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution with modernization of agriculture in the last few decades, since the 1960s, food availability, per head, in this world, has increased by 25 percent.

The ideas that have produced, for example, the unbridled liberalization and financial excess of the last few decades have emanated from economists who are (for the most part) very much alive.

Thirdly, food security has improved in the past few years.

Over the last few days, we have heard the words.

But, as we respond to the current humanitarian emergency due to higher food prices, we must not lose sight of the longer term problems that have undermined food security in recent decades.

Indeed, given a very low savings rate and high fiscal deficit over the past few decades, the US might otherwise have faced economic disaster.

This is a live story unfolding just in the last few weeks.

And actually I've been seeing it around me the last few days.

The last few years demonstrate that neither approach will work.

It has been a dramatic few weeks in Egyptian politics.

Over the past few decades, the International Monetary Fund became associated with excessive fiscal austerity, extreme political insensitivity, and since the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 with an out and out stigma.