It's now four years since the start of the recession and many young people have been left with nothing but a four-year gap on their CV.
But the euro has now been in existence since the start of 1999, with notes and coins circulating since January 2002, so there is an increasing body of evidence based on its experience.
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The UK stock market has risen 10% since the start of 2013, and is now higher than it has been since the US housing market bubble burst in 2007.
The 23-year-old has now been booked for diving six times since the start of 2012, his third yellow in the Europa League leading to a one-match ban.
Since the start of the industrial revolution, that concentration is now up to 390 parts per million.
But now, since relatively few buyers have cash to invest, yields often start to rise.
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Everton's sixth Premier League defeat of the season means they have now won just one of their last 10 games in all competitions since the start of October.
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Since then the project has been delayed by at least five years, with production now expected to start no earlier than 2010.
The Nikkei now has lost 13% since last Wednesday, after having climbed more than 70% since the start of November.
The UK and US markets are now back where they were before the 2008 crisis, having risen more than 9% since the start of the year.
Kinect has been touted as a way to get more physical activity into the traditionally sedentary sphere of video games since the days of Project Natal, and now it appears like Microsoft is developing some powerful new software to start quantifying just how much players are moving around.
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Now the authority has revealed that 95 patients have succumbed to norovirus at Edinburgh's flagship Royal Infirmary since the start of February.
But since then the 28-year-old Osprey has bounced back, toned up and has now deservedly earned a Test start amongst the playing elite of Britain and Ireland.
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