The performance of Japanese stocks over the last twenty years is a case in point.
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This has been proven year after year during you know at least the last twenty years.
It also has a gender component -- formal sector employment for females has increased 136% in the last twenty years.
Over the last twenty years in large companies and employers lobby organisations and recruitment bodies have consistently complained of skills shortages.
We must understand how Britain has changed in the last twenty years.
As of June 1, 2011, shareholders have seen a 700% return on their investment in Target Stores over the last twenty years.
Just take a look at some of the plugged and abandoned wells around that have been left unchecked for the last twenty years.
And, of course, there is the case of the Japanese real estate, where investors lost 40 percent of their money over the last twenty years.
This simple formula has proven true in the business of international soccer, particularly over the last twenty years with the formation of the English Premier League.
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As for deflation, what Japan has seen in the last twenty years is not remotely a re-run of the horrendous experience in the United States in the 1930s.
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Interestingly, we observe regional specialization over the last twenty years.
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During the last twenty years, environmental experts and organizations from Europe, Australia and North America increasingly co-operated with their counterparts in Africa on a number of projects in different countries.
It can be argued that much of the increase in player salaries and team owner wealth in the NFL over the last twenty years has come at the expense of taxpayers.
There are some small to medium-sized firms based here but although the main industry, tourism, has been in decline over the last twenty years, Eastbourne has benefited from growth in the economy.
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Over the last twenty years Premier League teams have spent their TV wealth on a combination of acquiring legitimate overseas stars and paying premium prices for largely over-hyped and often under performing domestic players.
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Over the last twenty years, once-dominant companies (think AOL, HP, and even Microsoft) rise and fall based more on new killer apps than the heavy thumb of regulators pressing ineptly on the scales of justice.
Over the last twenty years more than 5000 kilometers of ice has passed beneath my skis during numerous expeditions to both poles, as well as treks across Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland, Ellesmere Island and the Patagonian Icecap.
Europe has come a tremendous way over the last twenty years, and the lessons our Central and Eastern European allies and partners have learned are incredibly valuable as we seek to consolidate new democracies in the Middle East.
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Twenty thousand places in the last ten years compared with twenty thousand over twenty years.
Over the last twenty-five years the cost of college has quadrupled in real terms.
As I look back over my career so far, I can safely say I have learned and grown more in the last four years than in the previous twenty.
Today, that figure is 1.4 trillion, with cumulative production over the last 66 years clocking in at twenty times the original estimate.
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Whereas Microsoft regularly discontinues support for its out-dated Windows versions, some durable goods like a washing machines may last maybe twenty years beyond the point where the manufacturer is still in business or any cloud services they had will still be running, he said.
Twenty-two years after the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam, old psychic wounds still fester.
The last such system was tropical storm Danielle, over twenty years ago.
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But I need to say something that might be not you know very politically correct now, but I don't think that we should forget that in the past twenty or thirty years Egypt had a leapfrog in its economy and the achievements of the last period in the economic front should not be forgotten.
I've received twenty e-mails since starting this response, and without the rules that have evolved over the last five years my task would be impossible.
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