11.   Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole.

12.   Rights issues have become increasingly unpopular over the last decade or so.

13.   Life insurance developed alongside, but did not really take on its modern form until the last decades of the eighteenth century.

14.   The optimists feel that, in the last decade of imperialism, Russia was trying an evolution to Western style parliamentary government and open society.

15.   The world steer, like the world car, has emerged over the last decades through an international standardization of producer technology and a specific set of social relations.

16.   For the last decade, about one patient a year was referred to our department with a total bile duct transection after open cholecystectomy.

17.   During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system.

18.   Over the last decade the concept of hotel security has changed dramatically.

19.   In the last decade many large organisations have highlighted the ability to respond to a changing business environment rapidly as a factor critical to their survival.

20.   Both behavioural and cognitive theories are relatively recent developments, and have begun to have some impact only in the last decade or two.