Near the end of the twentieth century, the year 2000 problem (Y2K) was the focus of significant COBOL programming effort, sometimes by the same programmers who had designed the systems decades before.

Certain technologies are still too expensive and may require a few decades of continued research and development before they can make large contributions on a global scale.

Decades later, Cash spoke of looking forward to meeting his brother in heaven.

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

Sales contract interrupted before shipment The claimant seeks compensation in connection with several contracts for the supply of goods to buyers in Kuwait.

Several decades ago, the American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that economic prosperity in developing countries with weak governing institutions would not necessarily lead to political stability.

These offenses were perpetrated decades ago.

We should not repeat the mistakes that were made six decades ago.

But if you look at that graph that goes down and down and down, that's what we've done to this species through overfishing over many decades.

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

Commodity futures are generally traded before their expiration date.

Equally important is the need to reform the Security Council and to recognize that international development since the establishment of that body many decades ago now demands a more democratic representation of the global family in an expanded Security Council.

In a remarkable development, Chinese language and culture, which had been suppressed for decades, is allowed free expression.

It was decades before the term black hole was coined and people realized that black holes are real astrophysical objects in fact they're the death state of very massive stars that collapse catastrophically at the end of their lifetime.

I met her in the winter several years ago.

The issue , as it came to be called by Bonesmen, was debated for decades.

On the 4 of December 1643 (a few decades after the expulsion), Castilian troops reconquered the castle from the French during the Catalan Revolt.

His car turned over several times before falling into the river.

Before that several other military units had also been formed.

It took more than four decades for the PLO to recognize Israel.

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

World War I The causes of World War I included many factors, including the conflicts and antagonisms of the four decades leading up to the war.

If they have to review something that they should have learned a couple of weeks ago, or maybe a couple of years ago, they don't have to be embarrassed and ask their cousin.

This was figured out by Robin Williams a few years before the rest of us.

There was a spike, of course, a few years before, but that wasn't actually Queensland.

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.

This often obliges the Institute to prepare contracts for consultants several times, even though the contracts relate to the same specific functions and are for a short period of time.

Lawyers work out prenuptial contracts, and then the complexities of divorce negotiations.

Europe started its industrialization several hundred years ago, but for China, it has only been dozens of years.

Iran also claims that it was forced to resort to secrecy after US pressure caused several of its nuclear contracts with foreign governments to fall through.

Within decades, European powers built ever more sophisticated and expensive ships which the Barbary pirates could not match in numbers or technology.

According to the complainant, he had been arrested several times prior to the incident in question and had been interrogated about several unrelated criminal offences.

Of these, 240 beneficiaries had been absorbed by partner employers and have already signed work contracts.

Mr. President, it was in your country, Sweden, just over three decades ago that environmental law was born.

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

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are now as high as at any time in decades, and China is engaged in a massive military build up.

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.

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.

Following a trend that has been occurring in Brazil and in the rest of the world for several decades, the rural population as a whole is decreasing both in absolute numbers and in terms of ratio of the Brazilian population.

According to the United Nations, because of the Islamic State, 200,000 Yazidis have fled various towns in northern Iraq and around 147,000 are taking refuge in the semi autonomous Kurdish regions, leading to the largest and fastest influx of refugees in decades.

Among other aspects, the report recognizes the fact that a majority of United Nations system organizations were established decades ago and a good number of their headquarters agreements have been amended in some very specific areas in an effort to reflect present realities.

But the CIA has made mistakes before.

But that is not now. And it is not for some years to come.

It was before Hamas had won the Palestinian election, eliciting various counter measures by Israel.