That compares with annual growth rates of 8% or more for much of the previous decade.
China averaged annual GDP growth of about 10% for the previous decade before the recent downturn.
After inflation, college costs increased by 75% in the previous decade before the economic meltdown.
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Clearly, too many houses were built in the previous decade, and loose money was a factor.
Over the previous decade manufacturing production and investment stalled, and we lost ground to our competitors.
Those born in one decade experience a very different world from those born in the previous decade.
The Liverpool-based team had spent most of the previous decade in the bottom half of the Premier League.
Over the previous decade Oxxfords sales had dropped by a third as younger American businessmen flocked to Italian designers.
McKinnell predicts more new medicines will reach the market in the next 10 years than in the previous decade.
This will keep grape prices from swinging wildly over the next 10 years as they did throughout the previous decade.
And before 2012, the number of gunshot victims remained relatively flat for the previous decade, hovering around 1, 800 per year.
With luck, smart sardines from the previous decade can look to grow fat from the fruits of their own expensive education.
The ratings for Fox are a far cry from the previous decade.
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Through Race to the Top, states have made more progress in reform over the past two years than in the previous decade.
Bossie may have arrived in Washington as a flame-throwing outsider, but during the previous decade he had become part of the conservative establishment.
As an aside, in a previous decade I would tell American business people that Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities were not irrelevant backwaters.
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In eastern and southern Africa, malaria mortality among children under five was nearly twice as high in the 1990s as in the previous decade.
Of the seven No. 1-seeds who swept No. 8-seeds over the previous decade, only the 2008 Lakers reached the NBA Finals, before falling to Boston.
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As a result, Japanese equities have shown more life in recent weeks (up more than their American counterparts are this year) than in the previous decade.
The Navy, which had spent the previous decade building up to nearly 600 ships, including 15 aircraft carriers, would shrink to 450 ships, including 12 carriers.
According to the study, the proportion of men entering their first marriage with two or more children in the early 2000s nearly doubled over the previous decade.
Prior to straying off course earlier in the previous decade, Toyota provided value in many of its products by relentlessly reducing costs while maximizing benefits to the consumer.
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In the previous decade, from 1991 to 2000, it closed by almost four, and in the decade prior to that, 1981 to 1990, by over ten percentage points.
They compared the rates of esophageal and stomach cancer in 83, 652 people, half of whom had received at least one prescription for oral bisphosphonates in the previous decade.
Morningstar analyst Christopher Davis explains the poor performance by noting that Oak is wedded to the silicon, health care and biotech names that were stars in the previous decade.
Mr Brown's pitch was that, as prime minister, he would offer a change, not only from his own earlier incarnation but also from the previous decade of Labour rule.
That was fewer than half as many as in the peak year of 1998, which saw 240, and well below the average of 193 cases annually over the previous decade.
And in part that was because of a whole set of policy decisions that had been made and challenges that had been unaddressed over the course of the previous decade.
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Under Comcast, NBC did better than expected during last summer's Olympics and began showing clear signs of a comeback, improving ratings after nearly sliding into irrelevancy over the previous decade.
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