21.   The original structure was cut to install electricity, heating, lighting and fire protection in earlier decades.

22.   They were nearly as likely to be married as a decade earlier.

23.   To be sure, those earlier decades of research revealed the outlines of how hair grows.

24.   Today, he said, the thrift industry originates just one out of four mortgage loans, down from half the loans in earlier decades.

25.   Yet it could have been done in weeks had the Pentagon invested the cost of two or three carrier battle groups in airlift and sealift capabilities a decade earlier.

26.   ANSA quoted unidentified terrorism experts as saying the style of the language perfectly mirrored that of the terrorist gang in earlier decades.

27.   In earlier decades, Thailand was a major base for the U.S. military throughout the Vietnam War.

28.   It was a modest display compared with efforts of earlier decades, when Cuba staged Soviet-style parades of machinery as well as men in motion.

29.   It was a modest display compared with those staged in earlier decades, when Cuba put on Soviet-style parades of machinery and men in motion.

30.   Many state factories have started to give workers contracts instead of the guarantees of lifetime employment and benefits that prevailed during earlier decades of Communist Party rule.