31.   Recent decades have seen Kurdish rebellions in Iran, Iraq and Turkey.

32.   The past decade has seen a boom in computer technology.These days, most of the problems that hound modern man are left for computers to figure out.

33.   The past decade has seen Berlusconi and the judiciary on the collision course on several occasions.

34.   The past decade has seen the city engulfed twice by military pillaging.

35.   The past decade saw the rise of eventual film stars Kenneth Branagh and Ralph Fiennes.

36.   This decade saw new tensions arise following the fall of Communism in Romania.

37.   That decade saw Malraux take up arms against the threat of fascism.

38.   The past decade has also seen a fall in the relative number of children aged under five, the committee said.