11.   Businessmen rather than wine makers, they based their choices on the prices paid for the wines over the previous decade.

12.   But both regions experienced significant population increases in the cities, compared with the previous decade.

13.   But many of their generation, and a majority of men, are slipping behind the economic status of young adults in previous decades.

14.   But the researchers did not endorse other reforms that had been introduced during the previous decade in poor-performing states such as California, Louisiana and Mississippi.

15.   But that only seemed to matter to the man who brought Fernandomania and World Series title and Cy Young Award to the Dodgers the previous decade.

16.   But the current crop of organized, sophisticated, haphazard murderers is a legacy of previous decades.

17.   Comparable polls were not done in previous decades.

18.   Critics complain that the appeals court is increasingly conservative and bent on limiting civil rights protections established in previous decades.

19.   Despite numerous revamping attempts over the previous decade, the stores and catalogues were losing money and showed no sign of recovery.

20.   Disposable, discretionary income is shrinking, and it will not support an average salary base that grew almost fivefold in the previous decade.