On average they accounted for some 40% of bank lending, up from 20% a decade earlier.
Benetton's sales were stuck at 2 billion euros in 2011, unchanged from a decade earlier.
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Weight Watchers had started a decade earlier offering AA-like support groups for membership fees.
Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), which first appeared a decade earlier, are now selling steadily.
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Back in the 1970s, Target had meandered from its first discount successes just a decade earlier.
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Senate Republicans, however, blocked its passage, despite the fact that Republicans helped write the bill a decade earlier.
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Calvet had done a brilliant job a decade earlier in performing his own turnaround of the car company.
Nunavut, a vast northern territory in Canada, was created a decade earlier by a settlement with the Inuit.
Research published last year suggested that lifelong female smokers died a decade earlier than those who never started.
Even among workers with full-time, full-year jobs, the participation rate was just 54.4% down from 60.4% a decade earlier.
Whereas a decade earlier, 1990 was a long way from kick-off for tech.
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The latest census says there were 1.34 billion people in 2010, an increase of 5.8% from a decade earlier.
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Simply put, the company he returned to last month is not the one he left half a decade earlier.
China consumes some 65% of the world's rare earths, Reuters reported last year, compared to 25% a decade earlier.
Not the world record, but the first bass of over 20 pounds since Bob Crupi's almost exactly a decade earlier.
It was bought in 1998 from Ukraine, where it had been rusting half-finished since its first launch a decade earlier.
Take a look at the myriad similarities between the U.S. at the close of the 1990s and Japan a decade earlier.
The heavy volumes of belfry and encircling columns recall Benjamin Latrobe's weighty towers on his Baltimore cathedral from a decade earlier.
The show drew 6.9 million viewers per episode last season, down 17% from half a decade earlier, according to the Nielsen Company.
Still, a decade earlier some 76% said the royals should receive less.
Not helping: the trend toward cremations (30% of funerals in 2004, up from 20% a decade earlier), costing far less than a burial.
They contacted Patrick K. O'Donnell, a military historian who had interviewed Joyeuse a decade earlier for a book on World War II espionage.
Williamson, an experienced diplomat, knows Kosovo well, and a decade earlier he had worked in The Hague, helping to draft the indictment against Milosevic.
These are all conditions that make Afghanistan far less threatening to its neighbors and the United States than it had been a decade earlier.
Likud leader Ariel Sharon - who just a decade earlier had been taken for dead - was swept into power with an electoral landslide.
One night earlier this summer, Gates paid a visit to the cultural nonprofit, Little Black Pearl, where he had volunteered a decade earlier teaching ceramics.
Like a middle-distance athlete on a bend, anyone who wants to run something in his 40s needs to position himself for supremacy a decade earlier.
The studios reached out to black audiences in the same calculating way they had angled for teenagers a decade earlier with dragstrip and surfing films.
Another potentially serious flaw is that participants asked in 2001-02 about their mobile use a decade earlier will have been using analogue, not digital, handsets.
Yet this represents a drop of two-thirds from a decade earlier.
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