That was two decades before the first Opium War.

This transfer has dramatically increased over the past two decades.

Leblanc influenced his work for the following two decades.

But Japan s agriculture sector has declined over the last two decades.

Another has to do with its land activists that have been criminalized over the past two decades.

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

There should also be some understanding for what Russia and the Russian people have gone through over the past two decades.

ZURICH Over the last two decades, inflation targeting has become the predominant monetary policy framework.

The country bore the yoke of tyranny for two decades.

Of course, there is still the euro, Europe s only great political success over the last two decades. But now even that is coming into question, thanks to Germany.

Over the last two decades, however, our hopes political, social, and economic have been repeatedly dashed.

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

The Scandinavian countries showed the way two decades ago.

Indeed, the last two decades have proved dismal for the practice of the dismal science.

It will be along time before the Dear Leader will be able to convince his followers that a stock market, with its demand for corporatization and even privatisation, is at all connected to the primary stage of juche.

Frankly, with two decades of economic stagnation already behind it, Japan has more important matters to pursue.

The policies that transformed in China over the last two decades are unlikely to work in North Korea.

Over the last two decades, the world grew accustomed to US led international coalitions for war in the Middle East.

Amnesty s estimates of the number detained over the past two decades range from 8,000 to 20,000.

It took two decades in the case of nuclear technology.

Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.

Indeed, empirical research has shown that, throughout history, as far back as the Standard Oil case in the early 20th century, most instances of alleged predatory pricing have in fact been cases of superior efficiency.

Perhaps the most remarkable trend in global macroeconomics over the past two decades has been the stunning drop in the volatility of economic growth.

A screen shot from a 1986 LEGO sports cartoon produced in Hungary.

Despite the region s overall economic growth over the past two decades, life for many Roma is worse now than ever.

In 2001, after two decades of democracy, it was 2.6.

The past two decades also have seen the world begin to reach its ecological limits.

Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has undertaken wide ranging reforms and embraced global financial integration.

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

Moreover, two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, the spread of democracy has stalled.

They support the almost two decades of reform that have stripped away much of the license raj.

They paid no heed to the large drag that Bush's unbalancing of America's public finances will impose on the US economy over the next several decades.

Nonetheless, almost two decades of economic stagnation have eroded Japan s regional clout.

It has been a major public concern for over two decades since its official terms of service expired.

Demand policies alone will not alone prevent two more lost decades, much less guarantee two golden ones.

Over the past two decades, high unemployment has transformed Europe in general and Germany in particular into a sociological time bomb.

The break with communism and reunification of Europe is now almost two decades old.

Over the last two decades a period when globalization opened up the world financial system private capital flows have contributed more to developing economies growth than has ODA.

In only two decades, China has become Southeast Asian countries leading economic partner, boosting its influence throughout the region.

Over the last two decades Europe experienced a dramatic expansion of financial markets at the expense of its traditional system of financing based on close relationships between large banks and established firms.

Two Cheers for the Rhineland Model

The world is passing through the greatest economic crisis in decades.

For example, two decades ago, the conventional wisdom was that the US was in decline.

Indeed, the legacy of that dynamic was fully overcome in Europe only two decades ago.

The road to pan European regulation over the last two decades has been winding and rocky.