31.   In Britain, cinema attendances have doubled in the past decade, and they were up in America last year.

32.   Little wonder that few of them, over the past decade, have lasted for more than a year or two.

33.   The number of mental stress claims has increased more than tenfold over the past decade.

34.   And beer, caught between the factors and the one third increase in teetotalism over the past decade.

35.   In the UK, the service sector has grown tremendously over the past decade or so, largely because manufacturers have attempted to reduce labour intensive tasks.

36.   Both Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitism had declined in the past decade, in part reflecting the deaths of Germans old enough to remember Nazi Germany before the war.

37.   Ciba Geigy had invested heavily in personal and team development traininng over the past decade and the benefits can be seen among all the changes.

38.   Almost nothing has changed in cancer treatment over the past decade as much as chemotherapy and the medications to treat its nasty side effects, from nausea to infections.

39.   Although the past decade has delivered a plethora of new diabetes drugs, not all have turned out to be as beneficial as first hailed.

40.   Although there has been some audience erosion in the past decade, it is minor compared to the losses in prime-time entertainment.