Its savings rate has been distressingly low for decades.

The US and the world will be paying the price for decades to come.

Uneducated children will be burdens on their societies for decades to come.

It has been developing for decades.

For three decades, this worked.

This situation had persisted for two decades.

The scars will last for decades.

For decades, however, Europeans have been more concerned with unification and constitutional arrangements than with traditional diplomacy.

It has been like this for years...

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

In a remarkable development, Chinese language and culture, which had been suppressed for decades, is allowed free expression.

This worked for three decades, but now the link is weakening.

We have fought for decades and we are not done fighting.

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

People had been talking about evolution for decades, but you have come up with a mechanism natural selection that just might explain much of it.

More disturbingly, coal, oil, and gas are projected to supply most of the world s growing energy needs for decades to come.

Great scientific minds have learned over the course of many decades to read the Earth s history, in order to understand how the climate system works.

I haven't seen him for years.

Japan may have shied away for decades from sharing the task of maintaining international order, but a new awareness of international responsibility is steadily emerging.

MADRID For decades, critics of the European Union have spoken about a democratic deficit.

Many serious disputes have gone unresolved for decades.

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

Over the next three decades, Finland remade its penal policy bit by bit.

For three decades, its economy has grown by 8 to 10 annually.

Sudan has been ravaged for decades by bitter conflicts rooted in abject poverty, struggles over resources, and ethnic and religious tensions.

For years, both were de facto subsumed within the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for seven decades.

As a result, Dokdo has been a thorn in relations between the two countries for decades.

By contrast, in recent decades central bankers in many countries have gradually won acceptance for the principle of independence from day to day political pressures.

And, as in Italy, a right wing party, backed by the US, dominated politics for decades in order to crush any chance for the left to take power.

But we should be cautious about moving beyond taking stands to taking sides in the region to a greater extent than has been the norm for decades.

Other great and independent countries, such as Japan, Germany, and Austria, have been subjected for decades to limitations on their acquisition of certain weapons and military equipment.

Indeed, there is evidence from many fisheries of earlier maturation such changes take place fast enough to be detected over the decades.

This process was largely frozen during the five decades of the Cold War.

For several decades, their activities were largely limited to their own countries.

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

This house remained in their family for years.

He's represented us in Congress for years.

Moreover, for decades Turkey has been a responsible member of many European institutions, and there is no reason to believe that it would act differently in the EU.

But, while each of these episodes was characterized by macroeconomic distortions caused by the imbalances, they lasted for years, or even decades.

For decades, activists in the United States and Europe have brought attention to the problem and urged African governments to prosecute perpetrators.

By providing a few billion dollars per year in assistance now, the donor world would ensure a prosperous, democratic, and stable partner in India for decades to come.

For decades, Israel dealt with this risk through effective air defenses and disdain for its adversaries ability to strike Dimona. In May 1984, after I authored a book about the consequences of military attacks on nuclear facilities, an Israeli intelligence officer came to California to question me about the vulnerability of the reactor and a proposed nuclear power plant.

When Japan s government tried to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council, few African countries backed its bid, despite receiving economic aid for decades.

For decades, Israel dealt with this risk through effective air defenses and disdain for its adversaries ability to strike Dimona.

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