Attended a board meeting a few times a year for the last decade.

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The big indexes went nowhere over the last decade, absolutely plummeted in the last few years and now even the 2009 snap-back rally is officially kaput.

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Although airport hotels have offered this service for transiting passengers for more than a decade, it is only in the last few years that city hotels have jumped on the idea, hoping to maximise the use of rooms that would otherwise be sitting empty.

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Few, if any, athletic records last more than a decade before better athletes break them, and then in the next decade shatter them as a new breed of competitor emerges.

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That means the rise in housing costs over the last decade was about 25% or roughly 2.5% a year, although in the last few years that number has gone deadline flat.

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