The last two decades have been the champagne era for dirty lucre.

Awareness of environmental issues has grown over the past two decades.

228. Crude birth rates have also declined during the past two decades.

In the past two decades, governments have come up short on solutions to environmental threats.

This transfer has dramatically increased over the past two decades.

This is an area that the government has been continually working on for the past 2 decades.

Pakistan had sought to promote that objective unsuccessfully for over two decades.

The scope and magnitude of these phenomena have changed considerably over the past two decades.

The economic history of Africa over the last two decades is one of precipitate decline.

However, the gap between the industrialized and the developing countries widened during the past two decades.

In the last two decades, the Government has taken numerous steps to improve road safety in Singapore.

The scope and magnitude of these phenomena have changed considerably over the past two decades.

Look a decade ago, look two decades ago markedly different.

They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world flattening digitization technologies, right?

Japan s slow growth and low interest rates over the past two decades are emblematic.

Consider, for example, Latin America s growth model of the last two decades.

The cause of these missing, but vital, resources lies in the shameful neglect of agriculture in the past two decades.

During the last two decades textiles and clothing constituted the second most dynamic product in world trade.

Trinidad and Tobago has been privileged to serve on the Special Committee against Apartheid for the last two decades.

Over the past two decades my country has experienced an unprecedented period of economic growth.

So, on balance, it seems that global inequality has been relatively stable during the last two decades.

India will thus become the new China of the past two decades.

WASHINGTON, DC The geography of poverty and social deprivation has changed dramatically over the last two decades.

Over the last two decades, a booming vegetable and cut flowers industry has developed on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya.

Africa is the only continent in which food production has declined significantly over the past two decades.

The international community has taken note of the enormous growth in United Nations peace operations over the past two decades.

It may be said, therefore, that the past two decades have been years of combined international efforts to prepare Namibians for their nationhood.

We must act now or lose the momentum that has been so painstakingly developed over the last decades.

But it got violent in the last two decades and includes decapitation and the death of two mayors.

Some people in the last decade or two have started creating artwork with technology.

These trends reflect a combination of technological and global market forces that have been operating over the last two decades.

In the last two decades, though, the poverty discourse has moved much beyond the income criterion.

In the past two decades, on average more than 200 million people have been affected every year by disasters.

Over the last two decades, India has become a global hub for software development and offshoring of back office services, as we call it, and what we were interested in finding out was that because of this huge industry that has started over the last two decades in India, offshoring software development and back office services, there's been a flight of white collar jobs from the developed world to India.

The output of the US and European music industries sounds stale in comparison, owing to a dearth of innovation over the last two decades.

The pattern is not uncharacteristic of other industrialized countries relative to emerging markets over the last two decades (Figure 1).

If they follow through, as I expect, there will be no return to the strategies of the last two decades.

Over the past two decades, nearly 700 institutions of higher education on every continent have signed it.

During those two decades, American and Chinese officials frequently discussed North Korea s behavior, both privately and in public meetings.

Of course, there is still the euro, Europe s only great political success over the last two decades.

In this context, the growth rate of export value over the past two decades has been used as the main indicator for identifying dynamic sectors.

However, the prolonged downturn in the world metal market in the last two decades has rendered the formula inoperative.

24. The national reports show that mortality indicators have improved in nearly all parts of the world over the past two decades.

But the alternative could be worse a populist backlash that destroys much of what Mexico has achieved over the last two decades.

For most of the past two decades, jihadists in the Caucasus and Central Asia were a major source of concern for the Kremlin.