21.   This decline spanned the longest period ever between minimum-wage hikes.

22.   We only had one lefty in the bullpen for the longest period of time.

23.   We stand at a mountaintop moment in our history, the longest period of economic growth this nation has ever known.

24.   What is not in dispute is that cicadas have the longest juvenile period and one of the longest life cycles of any any insect discovered.

25.   With the American economy in its longest period of expansion ever, the news for corporate America has been as good as it can be.

26.   Clinton said that next month the United States will achieve the longest period of economic growth in its history.

27.   He said he did not know the longest period that had been spent in prison.

28.   He then was dominant over the longest period of democracy and social peace in modern Greek history.

29.   He said Australia has enjoyed four and a quarter years of uninterrupted growth, the longest period ever experienced by an economy notorious for its booms and busts.

30.   It said the unusually heavy floods this summer disrupted navigation on the Yangtze for the longest period on record.