"You have had a decade or more in Africa of very slow economic progress in the nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

However,Asia gained more than two million hectares a year in the last decade.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

But that is changing. In the past decade the number of cyclos on the city's streets has declined sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The last major disruption to European aviation followed the September 11 attacks in the United States almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

After a police crackdown, JI members were convicted of several deadly bombing attacks in Bali and Jakarta earlier in the decade.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Even before this oil leak, BP's safety policies were in doubt following major accidents in Alaska and Texas in the past decade.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

Phyu Phyu Aye,a Burmese refugee who's lived in the United States for a decade,teaches sewing, but also advises her students on many cultural issues.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Even after a decade-long decline in illegal logging,Ritter says, there's still a long way to go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The senator is the first U.S.member of Congress to visit Burma in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Charles Taylor is on trial for his alleged role in Sierra Leone's decade long civil war.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Eight years after the end of a decade-long civil war, people will talk publicly for the first time of atrocities committed in their communities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

They are coming in when they are symptomatic, which is usually after a decade of infection.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade,or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

She bought it after living alone in an apartment for more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

"And they created roughly 70 percent of all new jobs in the past decade."

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

"For me,the best health news of the previous decade is the fact that the long overdue influenza pandemic has been so moderate in its impact .

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

weather agency reporting that this decade is likely to be the warmest on record and 2009 the fifth warmest year since record keeping began in 1850.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09