I haven't given a talk in nearly four months.

For nearly a decade the parliament was dominated by the PRDS.

Nearly two centuries have passed since Tocqueville wrote his masterpiece.

The Cambrian Ordovician extinction event occurred approximately 488 million years ago (m.y.a.).

Logs were used for water distribution in England close to 500 years ago.

After all, the dollar value of gold has nearly tripled since 2005.

Some 20 million lives have been lost in wars and insurrections since Gandhi died.

He emerged about a quarter of a century, which is about the same time that Uganda s President Yoweri Museveni came to power.

I have been running this blog for nearly five years now, and it s been a great experiment.

Since 1949, 16 million people have been displaced by reservoirs.

Nearly two decades after the demise of the Soviet empire, what stands out is a prevailing sense of lost opportunities.

In the late Pliocene Epoch, about 2.15 million years ago, the Eltanin asteroid impacted here.

The OECD is a multinational grouping of 30 countries established nearly a half century ago, with Switzerland a member.

Close to 4,000 Palestinians have been killed and 40,000 wounded since the start of the intifada, while Israel has made a total of 35,000 Palestinian arrests since September 2000.

Since 2002, approximately 4 million Afghan refugees have returned, including about 2.7 million from Pakistan.

Yet others say it has a direct connection with Portugal, which colonized the Omani coastline for nearly two centuries.

He is the most recognized worldwide symbol of a country that he has not seen for nearly five decades.

Undeniably, there has been no significant change in the government s system of journalism s regulation since China adopted its open door policy almost 30 years ago.

Natives of North America began practicing farming approximately 4,000 years ago, late in the Archaic period of North American cultures.

In May, President Thein Sein became the first leader from Myanmar to visit the White House in nearly a half century.

In this particular area we have witnessed remarkable progress, with nearly half of the States not party to the Convention having become members since the adoption of the Action Plan less than two years ago.

Approximately 115,000 Meskhetian Turks were deported to Central Asia and only a few hundred have been able to return to Georgia ever since.

For 4,000 years, we fished sustainably for this animal, and it's evidenced in the art that we see from thousands of years ago.

That remains as true today as it did almost 40 years ago, when I first entered government.

With almost two million patients now on antiretroviral treatment, annual AIDS related deaths have fallen by around 100,000 since 2005.

Ahmad Falsafi, an 82 year old dentist and blogger who wrote in his blog for about eight years, has died.

Since mid December 2004, the World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed some 871 tons of food commodities to 288,993 beneficiaries.

Even though the approach has been suggested for a decade, the validation that medical male circumcision substantially reduces the risk of contracting HIV is fairly recent.

LONDON Nearly four years after the start of the global financial crisis, many are wondering why economic recovery is taking so long.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of refugees has now reached approximately 43.7 million people worldwide, the highest in 15 years.

That's, and I'm going to be fair to the statisticians who talked this morning, not almost 1.5 million people a week, but almost 1.4 million people a week but I'm a journalist, and we exaggerate, so almost 1.5 million people a week, close to 70 million people a year.

However, the use of pesticides has increased staggeringly from 1950, and presently approximately 2.5 million tons of industrial pesticides are used each year.

Some 230 such boarding schools had been opened.

From this absolute number, nearly 60 docked at Rio de Janeiro and about 1 million entered by Valongo s Quay.

After all, this is Europe more than six decades after World War II, and nearly 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Since the Exchange opened its doors, 1,000 women have sought work there, and more than 200 of them have been placed and 40 women and girls have been sent for vocational training.

One of the shattering events in the history of mathematics, which is not appreciated by many people, occurred about 130 years ago, 145 years ago.

But, with the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, the country embarked upon a period of dizzying growth, averaging nearly 8 per year since then.

Similarly, as recently as two decades ago, instantaneous global communication existed, but was economically out of reach for most people.

But, almost six months into the North African upheavals, the number of arrivals on the southern island of Lampedusa has reached roughly 30,000.

Nearly four years after the world hit bottom in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, QE s impact has been strikingly asymmetric.

Roughly 238 million rubles ( 3.8 million) was divided up and spread across 70 different projects.

In Greece, there are nearly 1000 birds.

In this time over 6,292 were built.

The country now produces about 90 of the world's opium.