Nearly 90, 000 people died or are missing in the worst natural disaster in a generation.
The once in a generation opportunity to transform the fortunes of those areas delivered.
In a generation they have been weaned off chewing-gum, learnt Mandarin and become models of courtesy.
Race to the Top is the most meaningful reform of our public schools in a generation.
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Incapacity Benefit reassessment is one of the biggest changes to the welfare system in a generation.
Together all these people have created the best chance for peace in a generation.
Thus they are flabberghasted to find that mineral reserves will be exhausted in a generation.
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All those reserves really will be gone in a generation or not much more than that.
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Last year, after all, global GDP grew by 5.1%, the fastest rate in a generation.
The current Republican class in both houses may be the best in a generation.
Americans, in other words, now have the least contentious relationship with their president in a generation.
The move would be the biggest change in the exam system in a generation.
Such policies, of course, helped propel Singapore from third world to first in a generation.
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In a generation's time the population will be greater than that of the United States today.
The resulting crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is the world's worst nuclear accident in a generation.
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This possibility of a once in a generation moment passed us by and we will regret it.
Peter Riddell in The Times recently described the Shadow Cabinet as "among the most second-rate in a generation".
That committee faces the nearly impossible task of attributing blame for Thailand's worst political violence in a generation.
So the tungsten, tantalum, iron, whatever, that is in current reserves will indeed be gone in a generation.
FORBES: But Every Generation Does Indeed Exhaust Its Mineral Reserves
It posted record profits in 2009, just a year after the worst financial blowout in a generation.
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As the oil industry deals with the lowest inflation-adjusted prices in a generation, geophysicist L. Decker Dawson laughs.
The best equilibrium of government action and inaction cannot be determined in a day or in a generation.
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The selection in many vending machines has barely changed, if it has changed at all, in a generation.
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It is one big reason why 2011 saw the largest one-year decline in income inequality in a generation.
In the midst of the worst financial crisis in a generation, free trade slipped right off the global agenda.
Commodore computers ushered in a generation of technology enthusiasts, who grew up with and loved the brand and models.
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Is this, as cheerleaders on both sides claim, the most consequential election in a generation, or will little change?
The chance of toppling from the top ranks had tripled in a generation.
Once in a generation, a competitive sport is transformed by a visionary leader.
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