And we saw it all before just a few years ago in Bosnia for four long years until NATO acted, combining with the resistance of Bosnians and Croatians to bring the Dayton peace agreement and to turn the tide of ethnic cleansing there.
The 80-year-old is the founder member of the Postcard Club of Great Britain, amassing a collection of 95, 000 over 50 years before she sold most of it off a few years ago.
Before becoming president, he acted as chief operating officer and spent a few years before that overseeing the company's digital strategy.
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It was hardly a first for the bandleader: Mingus had tried to do the same a few years before to saxophonist Jackie McLean, who held him off with a knife.
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It will probably be a few years before you can have one of these at home.
The place had belonged to Hiram Wright, another legendary professor, who died a few years before.
It will be at least a few years before we know whether any of these treatments help.
But back in 1967 soccer in England had only scrapped the maximum wage a few years before.
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The joint venture is laying off workers and shedding divisions it acquired only a few years before.
The ice cream machine sat unused in the cupboard, an artifact of our wedding a few years before.
China alone will probably have the largest economy, surpassing that of the United States a few years before 2030.
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Many shed businesses that they had bought only a few years before in their headlong rush to be a conglomerate.
Liz Lambert was fighting street crime in Manhattan for a few years before she decided to move home to Texas.
The Trench Coat Mafia was a nonviolent school group of computer gamers established a few years before the shooting, Cullen said.
Employers happily took advantage of the assumption that female college graduates would work for only a few years before retiring to domesticity.
"China alone will probably have the largest economy, surpassing that of the United States a few years before 2030, " the report says.
Investors in Chinese real estate will have to get accustomed to falling asset prices for a few years before values stabilize again.
Still, Kodak did eventually build a hefty business out of digital cameras but it lasted only a few years before camera phones scuppered it.
That began to change a few years before the crisis as the dollar fell and emerging markets' growing appetite put pressure on global production capacity.
It is important for people who are nearing retirement to plan how they can fulfil themselves, at least a few years before it is upon them.
But looking beyond the advanced degree itself, students might hope and expect to find a job abroad and work for a few years before returning to Japan.
His colleague Julian Pepe said he came out to his family, particularly his twin brother, Waswa, just before he went to spend a few years in South Africa.
In any case, it doesn't take more than just a few years before the total money accrued with the higher, later benefits surpasses the total earned starting at the earlier retirement age.
Just a few years before the rot set in, Maya painters at the site of Bonampak, a small city in Chiapas, Mexico, covered the walls of a small three-room palace with extraordinary murals.
And a few years before that, an 80-tonne space rock called 2008 TC3 ploughed into the Earth's atmosphere, largely burning up and scattering fragments over the Sudan - just 20 hours after it was discovered.
And just a few years before the first children to learn by these methods are about to go on and become parents themselves, it seems that ministers could be about to turn back the clock in primary schools.
Industry has employed such tactical moves in past downturns to good effect, and it probably will be able to preserve profitability for at least a few years before business booked under previous, more favorable conditions begins to run out.
And it is one of the reasons that Poland - assuming it makes into the EU - will have to wait a few years before it will be trusted enough to have fully open borders with the other member countries to the west.
"It will be a few more years before full integration is possible, " he said.
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After a DePauw degree in 1981, Meeker spent a few years as a stock broker at Merrill Lynch before getting an M.
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