It has been a bumpy ride, with some great years (like 2009, when it gained more than 63%), and some rough years.
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Usually the king of both the console and handheld market, Nintendo has seen a rough couple of years since the DS and Wii took the sales charts by storm.
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"It has been a rough few years for bay grasses, and we were not terribly surprised, " said Bob Orth, a Virginia Institute of Marine Science researcher who coordinates the survey.
These folks know, as every living soul in America does, that these have been a rough couple of years for our economy and for our country -- the deepest downturn since the Great Depression ripped through our economy, costing more than 8 million jobs and rocking businesses, large and small.
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"Local government workers have had a fairly rough time for quite a number of years and they have actually contributed to the coffers of the council, " he said.
At home and overseas, Barack Obama has just erased three years of rough spots from the hard disc of politics.
The Jeep is steeped in rough and tumble imagery that dates back 70 years to the collective memory of stalwart and brazen World War II brigades.
De Beers has moved its rough diamond sorting and selling operations from London, its home for 80 years, to Gaborone, Botswanna, two months ahead of schedule.
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Rough competition and weaker overseas markets have hit Chinese solar entrepreneurs hard in the several years.
It is 50 years since the price of Old Master and Modern pictures, at all levels of quality, was in rough equilibrium.
While piracy won't be going away, something else is guaranteed over the next ten years: that the industries genuinely having a rough time in a digital world will overplay their hand and alienate the very public that might conceivably be won over to their side.
"We've been coming for a number of years to Jersey and they have always said it's very competitive between the two, so we had a rough idea of the standard, " he said.
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