Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, more than two decades after it was ended in the United States.
Proserpine, unfinished, was painted nearly two decades after they met, when they had become lovers.
Telmex is still the dominant fixed-line phone carrier in Mexico, two decades after Slim took it private.
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The meeting comes two decades after the landmark 1990 World Conference on Education for All, also in Jomtien.
More than two decades after the Windhoek conference, WPFD continues to resonate in the defense of media freedom.
More than two decades after the debut of the Macintosh, Apple decided not to license the iPod design generally.
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And it also has roots in the Child Nutrition Act that was passed just two decades after that in 1966.
Two decades after his release from prison, Pugach was accused in another case with chilling similarities but acquitted of the charges in 1997.
U.S. retailers of all stripes super-sized their stores over the past two decades after big-box chains demonstrated the benefits of being larger than the competition.
Shakespeare's story evolved from a history penned by Sir Thomas More more than two decades after Richard died in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
But, two decades after the end of the war, she travelled to the German city Goettingen, as near to the heart of Germany as you can get.
Two decades after the first mainstream rollout of computers in schools we have learned many significant lessons about ICT in Education and their potential transforming impact on national education systems.
Two decades after ambitious plans were unveiled to improve Penn Station while expanding it into the massive Beaux Arts post office building across the street, there are few visible signs of change.
In recent months senior local government figures have urged ministers to draw up plans to merge local authorities, nearly two decades after the restructuring which created the current 22 authorities in 1996.
Mr. Singh had been in jail in Pakistan for more than two decades after a court convicted him for spying and involvement in 1990 bombings in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 people.
Euro wonks will be further affronted that the British sought a veto on specific financial regulations, two decades after the unanimity rule was booted out of the single market by none other than Margaret Thatcher.
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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Even two decades after the Apollo moon mission, all the energies of hardware manufacturing firms were focused on semiconductors (like DRAMs or CPUs), color televisions, cars, Walkmans, CDs, VHS recorders, and a new consumer item called the personal computer.
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Nearly two decades after South Africa became a democratic nation, he was still meeting people who thought the country needed to have a white-controlled government as if that was the answer to whatever woes the South African people might be facing.
Whereas the number of patents granted increased at less than 1 percent per year from 1930 until 1982, in the two decades after the creation of the Federal Circuit, patent grants nearly tripled, growing at an annual rate of about 5.7 percent.
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It may be instructive to remember that all of this global warming crisis frenzy really got heated up in the late 1980s, less than two decades after many scientists had warned during the mid-1970s that the next Ice Age was rapidly approaching.
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But in an indelible episode of the NBC sitcom, Warburton's David Puddy immortalized himself in the eccentric history of Devils hockey, to the point where, almost two decades after it aired, stray hockey fans still occasionally stop Warburton and quote lines back to him.
More than two decades after the Berlin Wall succumbed to the will of Ms. Thiele and millions of other East Germans to see what lay beyond its concrete ridges, Berliners are fighting to keep the remaining traces of the city's nearly 30-year separation intact.
Yet global warming observed less than two decades after many scientists had predicted a global cooling crisis prompted the United Nations to organize an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and to convene a continuing series of international conferences purportedly aimed at preventing an impending catastrophe.
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Middle age - those two healthy decades after the babies stop - is very real.
This reflects an underlying improvement in Britain's economic performance over the past two decades, after relative decline during most of the post-war era.
The index logged its best January in almost two decades, after lawmakers reached a last-minute deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of sweeping tax increases and spending cuts.
One reason Americans now spend so little is that U.S. clothing prices have fallen significantly over the past two decades, after rising in the 1950s, 1960s and especially in the 1970s.
Ms Sheeran said Egypt had just widened its food rationing system after two decades and Pakistan had reintroduced ration cards after many years.
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