The influenza viruses established in humans for several decades originated from bird viruses.

In recent decades, the literacy rate of Rajasthan has increased significantly.

This is the current death toll of what has been described as the worst floods in decades .

VIENNA The most notable innovations of the past two decades have been financial.

And that is what China s government delivered in the last few decades.

GENEVA The effects of the most devastating financial crisis in decades have begun to fade.

Moreover, in the past two decades, Hong Kong has been thriving on a knowledge based economic system.

Lost in all this are the clear lessons of the last five decades of economic development.

Throughout the past two decades, many historical landmarks have given way to redevelopment projects.

Bangladesh already hosts 400,000 Rohingyas in various settlements, who have arrived over past few decades.

It is also an occasion to look forward with pride in the achievements of recent decades and therefore for hope.

Many of the great political scandals of recent decades began with the financing of parties and candidates.

Over the last three decades, increased economic and trade integration has bolstered the region s growth. For example, segmented production for global supply chains has stimulated trade in intermediate goods and promoted foreign direct investment.

Over the last three decades, increased economic and trade integration has bolstered the region s growth.

For the last two decades, Russians have been able to travel internationally without restrictions.

Moreover, carrying a huge debt burden runs the risk that global interest rates will rise in the future, even absent a Greek style meltdown.

Botswana's renegotiations of such contracts laid the foundations of its remarkable growth for the last four decades.

These misconceptions are clearly evident in government leaders speeches over the past two decades.

Nor have the popular trends of recent decades proven to be much better.

China emerged over the past decade and a half as a paradigm of economic energy, determination, and progress.

Experience in recent decades has shown that a balanced and moderate approach is needed on these matters.

Over the past 2 decades, America has had higher growth and higher productivity growth.

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

Labor market recovery normally lags behind that of GDP hence the jobless recoveries of recent decades.

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

CAMBRIDGE During the last decades of the twentieth century, Silicon Valley was the unparalleled epicenter of high tech innovation.

These strong arm tactics stand out even more against the deftness of Chinese diplomacy over the last few decades.

But there has been only a slight shift in the age of menarche (the first period) over the past four decades.

Indeed, strong Chinese demand has supported its trading partners export led growth for much of the past three decades.

As in most of continental Europe, economic performance has been enormously disappointing over the last two decades.

And some of the very pressures that helped to contain inflation for the past two decades have been retreating.

Unlike the apologetic reforms of the past two decades, Indians have been promised a confident new beginning.

During the past two decades, North Korea s leaders have experimented lightly with minimal reform, only to retreat from it quickly. China patiently bore this pattern of intermittent brinkmanship and timid reform, largely owing to its belief that the risks posed by the Kim dynasty could be controlled as long as China did not cut off the regime s lifeline of oil, food, and other necessities.

There is a remarkable similarity between those policies and the activist measures pursued by the highly successful East Asian economies over the past two decades.

SAN FRANCISCO Today s turbulence in emerging market equity markets has triggered a wave of obituaries for their growth miracles of recent decades.

Interestingly, a closer look at Japan s performance over the past decade suggests little reason for persistent bearish sentiment. Indeed, in terms of growth of output per employed worker, Japan has done quite well since the turn of the century.

The holy grail of much Leftist thinking over the past two or three decades has been cultural relativity. Terrified of being thought racist, imperialist, arrogant, elitist or too Western,'' we averted our eyes from (and sometimes even supported) barbarisms of all types.

During the past two decades, North Korea s leaders have experimented lightly with minimal reform, only to retreat from it quickly.

Interestingly, a closer look at Japan s performance over the past decade suggests little reason for persistent bearish sentiment.

The rapid development of smart software over the last few decades has been perhaps the most important force shaping the coming manufacturing revolution.

The holy grail of much Leftist thinking over the past two or three decades has been cultural relativity.

In the last three decades, America s male dominated politics has become increasingly wonky, abstract, and professionalized.

One of the defining features of the past decades is the sharp increase in services productivity in the US none of that happened in Europe.

Generally, cities in developing countries cannot afford architectural jewels such as Notre Dame but they can have formidable pedestrian avenues shaded by enormous tropical trees.

For all of its economic success during the past two decades, not least since the 2008 crisis, industry is hollowing out, and structural issues are beginning to be felt.