A couple of centuries.

For the past two centuries its headquarters have been in Rome.

They were devised more than two centuries ago for a mostly agrarian world.

Aside from the atomic bomb, this is the most dangerous security development in two centuries.

LONDON Two centuries ago, Napoleon s arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East.

Taking advantage of the French bureaucracy s precision, Piketty was able to reconstruct the French national accounts over nearly two centuries.

BERLIN Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural law concept of inalienable human rights.

The nation state has been, and continues to be, the relevant unit of belonging and civic involvement for most human beings for more than two centuries.

And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.

Perhaps the moral and intellectual tide will be reversed, and America will remain exceptional for the reasons that Tocqueville identified two centuries ago.

Like the American revolutionaries of two centuries ago, Indian nationalists fought for the rights of Englishmen, which they thought the replication of the Houses of Parliament would both epitomize and guarantee.

For two and a half centuries, economists have believed that the flow of spending in an economy goes up whenever groups of people decide to spend more.

For China, a deeply self confident country, to be back simply means regaining the country s historical centrality in the world after an absence of more than two centuries.

In any case, it is certain that the current text of the Treaty will not survive more than two centuries (as has the United States' Constitution), or even two decades.

For the first time in two centuries, the biggest developing economies

For the first time since the Revolutionary War, two centuries ago, America has had to turn to foreigners for financing, because US households have been saving nothing .

India s growth pattern is remarkable because it contradicts a seemingly iron law of development that has held true for almost 200 years, since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

American forces performed disastrously at the Battle of Bladensburg in August 1814, allowing the British to capture and burn the capital.

And these villagers are playing throw the stick the one who kills the goose gets to keep it a game which Hogarth, two centuries later, attacked as cruel and barbaric

Climate research dates back at least two centuries, to Joseph Fourier s discovery of the effects of greenhouse gases on planetary climates in 1859, John Tyndall demonstrated in his laboratory which gases cause this effect.

A Decade of Hugo Chávez

Latin America suffered a lost decade.

Rather, costs are low because for almost two centuries colonial powers and then domestic governments hobbled markets and restricted international trade, leaving a legacy of wages so low that they offset weaker productivity.

The intense personal hatred between these men overlays two centuries of tortured history between Russia and Georgia.

It is as if two centuries of relations between the two countries meant nothing.

For, as an English political philosopher, Edmund Burke, said two centuries ago

It lost its innocence decades ago.

The Israel Palestine conflict has lasted far too long.

We've spent decades professionalizing implementation.

We are born into a box of time and space.

But about two centuries before David, the Hittites had discovered the secret of smelting and processing of iron, and, slowly, that skill spread.

Two centuries later that was no longer the case by the end of the nineteenth century, median living standards in Britain and other countries to which the Industrial Revolution had spread were, for the first time in recorded history, light years above any neo Malthusian benchmark of subsistence.

It is travel in time, travel on time.

More than a century later, the game continues.

She previously worked for the Financial Times for more than a decade.

Experts say the research has actually been around for more than a decade, and more long term studies need to be done.

For the Haitian people, last year was supposed to be a year of celebration marking the bicentenary of its victory over slavery and colonization.

It undergoes a crisis about once a decade.

The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50

This situation had persisted for two decades.

With Pivot, you can drill into a decade.

How long have they been standing in what positions?

Oh, yes, Maisie Springfields by the dozens.

Burma is suffering the impact of decades of civil war.

(Some of us have been proposing this for almost two decades.)