1.   A lowering of standards is generally noted, however, in the last quarter century.

2.   And certainly conflict and chaos have been the hallmarks of the last quarter century.

3.   And his peers recently voted him the greatest player of the last quarter century.

4.   Avila is a crowd-pleasing force behind one of the major religious shifts among American Hispanics in the last quarter century.

5.   A few newspapers seemed to agree that the periodic summit meetings over the last quarter century had served a useful purpose.

6.   A geographer at the Free University of Berlin, Pachur has been exploring the Sahara for the last quarter century.

7.   Afghanistan has been at war for much of the last quarter century, and most of these children were here even before the allied air strikes began.

8.   But as the Republican Party has steadily grown over the last quarter century, part of the Democratic primary decline has been from people switching to the Republican Party.

9.   But he might just be the best coach of the last quarter century.

10.   But in the last quarter century, public school sports in the city have been devalued and cast adrift.