Sami was fifteen or sixteen.

I have been an optimist about China for 15 years.

About 15 years ago, Europe endured a similar cycle.

Last year, for the first time in 15 years, less than one half of the oil consumed in the US was imported.

In 2009, Russia recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, with total growth of 10,500.

The need for growth is as strong today as it was 15 years ago.

That would have been sufficient to pay back the entire Italian national debt over about a decade and a half.

About 15 years ago, I spent a summer in France s Loire Valley.

Moreover, the size of China s economy will surpass that of the US in about 15 years.

When she was 15, she experienced an episode of severe depression, which culminated in a suicide attempt.

Designed for at least a 15 year period, such a program would be a strong signal in itself.

Fifteen years later, Jensen wrote a paper about the costs of excessive sensitivity of pay to performance.

Having known Wang for more than 15 years, my sense is that he is very well suited to this vital task.

There are around 35 births for every 1,000 girls aged 15 19, compared to fewer than ten per thousand in the northern European countries.

A nuclear power plant can take 10 15 years to build, and a coal fired power station around five years.

Fifteen years ago, Fang Hongin was protesting in Tienanmen Square.

In fact, this year, four American utilities have decided to shut down a total of five reactors permanently the first closures in the United States in 15 years.

Indeed, the rate on inflation adjusted US Treasury bills (so called TIPS ) is now negative up to 15 years.

As he lay bleeding, terrorists trained their guns on his mother and 15 year old sister.

Fourteen years had passed since the explicit call by the United Nations to solve the question of the persons who had disappeared.

But these countries territorial integrity and international borders, unlike Kosovo s, have been settled and recognized around the world for 15 years.

And this was followed by the visit of a US aircraft carrier to Vietnam, the first since the Vietnam War ended 35 years ago.

And, as a visiting American scholar diplomat recently told me in a confidential conversation In the US, too, at least a generation of our children, from birth till the age of 15, have seen their country almost continuously at war.

Fifteen years ago, the United States was in the midst of what you could call its Age of Diminished Expectations.

It is now 15 years since the failed coup of August 1991 against Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 15 years, we got 200 million people out of poverty 700 million Chinese today have access to electricity, an unknown luxury 15 years ago.

This was a women s issue 15 years ago, perhaps, but now it is an ambient tension of modern life for a generation of women and men who are committed to gender equality.

The only recent parallel in Latin America was a similar effort fifteen years ago by the Colombian drug cartels.

FLORENCE Richard Nixon has been dead for 15 years, but he is making another comeback in America.

Expressing its deep gratitude for the dedication and commitment, as well as the accomplishments, of Mr. Marcel Boisard, Assistant Secretary General and, for fifteen years, Executive Director of the Institute,

Of course, Japan s escape from its 15 year deflationary trap and two decades of economic stagnation would be good for the world.

I had worked for her as the Conservative Party s research director, and as a minister for about 15 years, before going to Hong Kong as Britain s last Governor there.

To matriculate to the University of Tokyo, students had to finish ten to fifteen years of compulsory education acceptance was therefore available to only a small elite.

But most Americans today are worse off with lower real (inflation adjusted) incomes than they were in 1997, a decade and a half ago.

The collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe 15 years ago brought vast and positive democratic changes.

Fifteen new aircraft were delivered.

Fifteen members from African States

It should also be noted that Spain has not been represented on the International Court of Justice for 25 years.

LONDON Twenty five years ago, on March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein s troops spread poison gas through the Kurdish town of Halabja.

The total bill for all UN operations in the 12 months to mid 2008 reached 6.7 billion, about twice the level 15 years ago. One can only imagine the grave consequences if operations that are already spread thin are cut.

Although birth rates are falling, one third of the overall population is below 15 years old, and large numbers of young women are reaching reproductive age, or soon will be.

Fifteen years after its adoption by the General Assembly, only 33 countries had ratified or acceded to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

In fact, since 1985, fifteen Latin American presidents most without legislative majorities have not finished their term.

So, fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world remains more in need of new thinking than ever.

Since October 6, fifteen well known human rights defenders from Western Sahara have been arrested, detained and interrogated.