101.   As an analyst, he was frequently quoted, especially as the retailing industry was buffeted in the last decade by mergers and bankruptcies.

102.   As the generals grudgingly gave way, the number of papers doubled in the last decade.

103.   As prison populations have more than doubled in the last decade, the public debate over what constitutes appropriate and effective incarceration has intensified.

104.   As the martini gained a new following in the last decade, the name became a powerful signifier.

105.   Ask any multinational corporation that has set up shop in China in the last decade, eager to tap into the billion-customer market.

106.   Ashcroft said a backlash against the growth of the gambling industry in the last decade will lead to public support for killing the subsidy.

107.   As spare white interiors have grown increasingly fashionable over the last decade, wallpaper manufacturers watched their sales droop like spent tulips.

108.   Astonishing progress has been made in the last decade both in understanding the myriad causes of impotence and in correcting or circumventing them.

109.   As with other immigrant groups, the number of Haitians becoming American citizens has increased sharply in the last decade.

110.   At long last France could be developing a generation of world-class singers, the fruit of all the seeds the Socialists so energetically planted in the last decade.