"The ICC has sat on the fence in the past few months and in the past few years on other issues, " he said.
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Quite a few officially confirmed nuclear incidents occurred in the past few years in Japan, some of them caused nuclear-polluted gas and liquids to leak.
The carmaker has been trying to tie up with various international manufacturers in the past few years in an attempt to regain its hold.
Chinese banks lent out record sums of money in the past few years in a bid to sustain growth amid the global financial crisis.
Protest movements, often involving youth, have burgeoned in the past few years in India amid growing frustration about corruption and poor governance, but they have yet to score a concrete policy victory.
In the past few years, in dozens of utility regions such as Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio, price hikes have ranged from 20% to 80%.
Until services began expanding in the past few years, women in southern Nigeria tended to pay for their contraception at small drug stores.
It helps, too, that much of the job growth in the past few years has been in the public sector (see article).
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When citizens can find videos on the issues they care about, they can disrupt and redirect political discourse that has been distilled by just a few media players in the past few years.
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The OECD has been largely wrong in the past few years, but in this they agree with many private forecasters - and the likes of the European Central Bank (ECB), which has also suggested that the eurozone is likely to slip into recession.
Al-Qaeda in the past few years has lost ground in Arab hearts and minds.
Given that the use of drones has significantly escalated in the past few years, a breach in security is worrisome.
Why is it that in the past few years, at least in my lifetime, we have seen such an increase in people seeking healthcare.
Several inspections in the past few years also revealed weaknesses in hospital management and poor record keeping, leading to a reshuffle at board level.
Developing a new treatment still takes eight to ten years, and in the past few years the number of new medicines hitting the market has fallen to an all-time low.
It looks like those that bought a Seagate hard drive in the past few years could possibly be in store for a few freebies or a bit of cash, at least if a proposed class action settlement goes ahead.
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In the past few years, hackers have broken in and obtained the account information of millions of consumers.
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He says because a large number of British jobs have been outsourced to India in the past few years, this "animosity in Britain is natural".
As the Employment Outlook shows, in the past few years the pace has slowed in some respects (and, in a few cases, gone into reverse).
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Only in the past few years, with the downturn in the economy, have we seen a drop in illegal entry and a decrease in the size of the illegal immigrant population.
On defence, although like many other European countries Italy still spends too little, it has in the past few years made a useful contribution in places such as Kosovo and Afghanistan as well as in Iraq.
And I think one of the surprising things that has really popped up in the past few years - and this is in many things in Detroit - has been a little bit of a racial component.
For all the focus in the past few years on what went wrong in the financial crisis and what needs to be fixed, equal or more time should be devoted to creating worthy investment and risk-taking opportunities.
Babak Zanjani has more money in the bank than the entire GDP of this tiny former Soviet republic, but in the past few years he has been investing in businesses here, and today he is in town for the inauguration of his latest venture - a smart new transport hub for the capital, Dushanbe.
In the past few years there has been a turnaround in economic thinking.
In the past few years, both the Tsarnaevs excelled in sports and academics, and seem to have lived apparently normal lives.
The company has seen tremendous growth in the United States in the past few years and continues to invest heavily in the US market.
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But a regional downturn in the past few years has exposed several weak areas in the economy, besides the obvious problems of Vietnam's big state-owned firms.
In the past few years, his support for Serbia in Bosnia and his refusal to recognise Macedonia because of its name squandered Greece's chance to help make the Balkans safer.
Then again, as the Bank of England has reminded us, it has often been "special factors" pushing inflation up in the past few years - particularly, big changes in the price of oil and other commodities.
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