Chinese fertility was falling for decades before the one-child policy took effect in 1979.
More than sixty countries were on the gold standard in the decades before War World I.
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It was several decades before scientists thought of designing systems that could work anywhere.
It was the original location at Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, decades before it became chic.
Bancroft's creation was planted decades before either succulents or native low-water plants would become popular.
An arsenal of future weapons, as well as weapons from many decades before present day.
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Moranz was 8 when she left Shanghai in 1949, decades before Yu was born.
Decades before garish LED screens presided over the Strip, handcrafted neon signs reigned as Vegas' original iconic art form.
It is likely to be several decades before such a craft touches down on Mars, though.
Every nation could have had a national recommended reading list decades before we had cheap computers.
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He ran the company under that name for two decades before shopping it around to bigger players.
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They are trying to unload condos to avoid paying dues for several decades before they actually retire.
But I imagine that it will be quite a few decades before we find out for certain.
Even in 1918, Justice Brandeis laid the philosophical seeds to dispute this notion decades before NBA was decided.
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The Nobel Peace Prize recipient fought apartheid for decades before becoming the first democratically-elected president of South Africa.
Decades before Facebook, Twitter or anything else of the Internet era, a loyal community blossomed around the band.
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Happenstance in one appointment three or more decades before could effectively set important areas of government policy today.
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Decades before reality television shows like Extreme Makeover hit the airwaves, decorators' show houses were big moneymakers for charities.
However, even then, he warns that it could be decades before the UK can be declared a mink-free zone.
Mr. Shays had been a congressman for two decades before he was defeated in 2008 by Democrat Jim Himes.
Still, by that yardstick Indian firms have decades before institutional capitalism takes over.
It could be decades before power grids could be free of this menace.
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After having set up the infrastructure of IT and telecom in the decades before, we now start to truly network.
Carrefour, Wal-Mart's global archrival, beat Wal-Mart to South America, opening stores in Brazil in 1975, nearly two decades before Wal-Mart.
Decades before that, Ferrer specialized in boleros, slow, romantic songs that were the popular music of Cuba in the 1950s.
The video recording adventure had in fact kicked off a couple of decades before the height of the format wars.
Scottish engineers brought crates of it up the Congo and Zambezi rivers decades before Coca-Cola set foot on the continent.
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Mr Suharto ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for more than three decades before resigning in disgrace in May 1998.
Layer upon layer was applied for decades before it, and no one is claiming that the paintmakers did anything illegal.
She was active in developing micro-finance two decades before Muhammad Yunus and Grameen bank shared the Nobel Peace prize for microcredit.
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