So it has gone for Mr. Lhota as he has entered two high-profile roles in the past two years after spending decades behind the scenes.
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He served more than two decades in Congress, including three years as chairman of the committee that oversees the drug industry.
Everyone has aged the same 20 years, but those two decades have done different things to each of them.
Many scoring records have been shattered in recent years but more than two decades have passed since Pakistan's Majid Khan struck a century before lunch against New Zealand in Karachi.
Raju Jadoo, the dynamic head of the Board of Investment, says that more foreign money has been invested in Mauritius in the past three years than in the previous two decades.
"Forgiveness really is in the hands of the other, and I think it's incumbent upon each of us to make that decision for ourselves, " he said, citing his 52 years in the state and two decades in politics.
The reform reversed two decades of little growth and deep recessions into five years of spectacular growth.
In 2006 and 2007, for the first time in decades, global oil production sunk for two consecutive years.
Mr. Kimmel, 45 years old, is a full two decades younger than his longtime idol David Letterman, who is 65.
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Ms Sheeran said Egypt had just widened its food rationing system after two decades and Pakistan had reintroduced ration cards after many years.
Raikes, who took over as head of the Gates Foundation two and a half years ago after almost three decades at Microsoft ( MSFT), was proud of the accomplishments made by the foundation.
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Screening guidelines have been controversial for decades, but the issue exploded nearly two years ago when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against routinely providing the screening for women in their 40s.
The coaches assigned to Walton Middle School were John Hobson, a bushy-bearded high-school history teacher who was just thirty-three years old when he started but had been a successful baseball and tennis coach, and Diane Harding, a teacher who had two decades of experience but had spent the previous seven years out of the classroom, serving as a technology specialist.
For some years now, going back at least two decades, automobile manufacturers domestic were moving their plants increasingly to the South.
But many of our readers hope to communicate over much longer time frames: 15% chose three years, 18% chose five years, 16% chose ten years, and 19% will wait two decades to get their message.
"It's not going to be a matter of years but over the next one or two decades that the standard of living becomes more uniform across the European Union, " and wages in Eastern Europe catch up with the West, says Brian O'Reilly, director and global equities strategy at UBS wealth management.
Kogan, 61, has spent two decades at Schering-Plough and has been CEO for six years.
Sullivan, 67, is almost two decades removed from his "SeaFirst" days, and 11 years into his current career as a winemaker.
From his heroic service in Vietnam to his years as prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through two decades in the United States Senate, he has devoted himself to this country.
Michael Saynor, who has worked in the market for 45 years and run his own business there for two decades, said it was vital stallholders were involved in the planning of any development.
Japan had a high savings rate for years but has suffered dismal growth over the past two decades.
More than 2% of Portugal's population have emigrated in the past two years, since the country entered the worst recession in decades, officials say.
In his report to the nation, he pointed to 3% economic growth in the first three quarters of 1999, up from near zero the previous year, an inflation rate of 6.6%, the lowest in two decades, interest rates under 9%, the lowest in 12 years, and 19% growth in exports.
Credit cards took about 30 years to gain wide use, ATM machines less than two decades.
This would reverse more than two decades of expansion under the previous chairman, Friedel Neuber, and two years of restructuring under Mr Sengera.
That is twice the level of similarity over the past five years and roughly 20 times the level of the past two decades.
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It was a full four decades after the war, when the two friends reunited in their golden years, that Lloyd learned that the man who saved his life, his friend Andy, was gay.
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The problem is acute in the southern state of Kerala, as well as Maharashtra, in the country's west, which after two years of poor rains is experiencing its worst drought in four decades.
Nielsen hinted at changes two years ago when TV ownership dropped for the first time in decades, which may turn around since the new definition includes viewers with internet-connected TVs, and could go further to include viewers with just a tablet or laptop.
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