1.   The book describes how popular culture has coarsened in recent decades.

2.   Medical science has made amazing progress in recent decades.

3.   In recent decades biomass has become increasingly important as a source of fuels such as biogas and alcohol.

4.   This theory draws attention to the consequences of the changes in global production strategies of the TNCs in recent decades.

5.   TNCs have been responsible for the introduction of new industries and thus new categories of manufacturing employment into many developing countries over recent decades.

6.   In recent decades there has, however, been more and more chafing at this privileged position.

7.   After all, the whole emphasis of the computer revolution of recent decades as been a movement away from central control and direction to dispersed user sovereignty.

8.   One encouraging feature of period-instrument performances in recent decades has been a growing concern with reliable and authoritative editions.

9.   In recent decades the Elbe has become an open sewer in East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

10.   Vietnam has lost around half its forest cover in recent decades through a combination of war and population pressure.