1.   The second half of the seventeenth century saw a distinct movement away from the erratic lavishness which had marked much of this aspect of international relations in earlier decades.

2.   Top service brass, diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier.

3.   Another difficulty is that vending machines attached to the pillars in earlier decades have left a long legacy of gum.

4.   - Population losses from earlier decades left behind people better able to deal with economic challenges.

5.   According to the Shulman-Bowen data, varsity athletes of earlier decades did as well in school as their peers and went on to careers of community leadership.

6.   But it said higher emissions in earlier decades would require lower ones later.

7.   Compared with any earlier decade, these have been good times for Memphis.

8.   Given the business practices of earlier decades, many of the performers can use the cash.

9.   He and his family had moved into the house a decade earlier when they left Zurich.

10.   Her work with Deming eventually brought her back to Ford, where Deming had been a consultant a decade earlier.