For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

For decades, Chile claimed ownership of land on the eastern side of the Andes.

For example, concerning the parameter of per capita income growth, development economist Ha-Joon Chang writes that considering the record of the last two decades the argument for continuing neo-liberal policy prescriptions are " simply untenable.

For the first few decades of indirect fire, the firing data were often calculated by the observer who then adjusted the fall of shot onto the target.

For many decades the textiles industry, the engineering industry and coal mining were the central activities of the town.

For some decades the banner of the local newspaper featured the verse " Alexandria, Indiana / Home of the Rock Wool / Not on the Nile / But just as worthwhile.

For many decades bluetongue was thought to be confined to Africa.

For decades the generations of few remaining sighthounds were regarded as hunting-suited, when showing enough attacking initiative for fox hunting.

For several decades from the 1970s to early 2000s, the focus in designing high performance general purpose CPUs was largely on achieving high ILP through technologies such as pipelining, caches, superscalar execution, out-of-order execution, etc.

For many decades thereafter, historians derided the Parliamentary Republic as a quarrel-prone system that merely distributed spoils and clung to its laissez-faire policy while national problems mounted.

For many decades, consciousness as a research topic was avoided by the majority of mainstream scientists, because of a general feeling that a phenomenon defined in subjective terms could not properly be studied using objective experimental methods.

For decades, medical personnel and others have fought, and continue to fight, to define the circumstances for which a patient is “ dead ”.

For decades, it has been the global standard, recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union.

For decades to come, most other portrayals of the Cimmerian and his imitators were heavily influenced by the cover paintings of this series.

For the next four decades, the board members continued to serve as ex-officio trustees of the College of the City of New York and the city's other municipal college, the Normal College of the City of New York.

For several decades beginning in the 1940s, the largest producer of dynamite in the world was the Republic of South Africa.

For decades it has been unlikely that a complex information system can be built effectively without a proper database supported by a DBMS.

For several decades his department at University College was pivotal in the development of phonetics and in making its findings known to the wider world.

For about three decades immediately before 1902 it was negative, reaching − 6. 64 s. Then it increased to + 63. 83 s at 2000.

For many decades after that, floating-point hardware was typically an optional feature, and computers that had it were said to be " scientific computers ", or to have " scientific computing " capability.

For example, a Dinosaur is a member who was active before the first Worldcon ( World Science Fiction Convention ) held on July 4, 1939, while Associate Membership requires provable activity in fandom for more than three decades.

For a number of decades after WWII, the Federal Republic of Germany kept a notably low profile in international relations, because of both its recent history and its occupation by foreign powers.

For example decades later in the 1980s, the myth was still going strong.

For three decades there are costly and continuous campaigns to suppress the local African rulers.

" For the next several decades, Davis claimed she was fired, and although Cukor never understood why she placed so much importance on an incident he considered so minor, he never worked with her again.

For large letters, e.g. thermoformed of acrylic or butyrate, there are other techniques.

For example, in a typical store installation, fifty 24-in. and six 36-in. red acrylic letters were mounted against a white painted wood background.

For mounting to corrugated plastic backgrounds, very small holes may be drilled in the sides of the letters and stainless steel wire threaded through the openings, its ends twisted behind the panels.

For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas ; in Zhuyin not only is one of the tones unmarked, but there is a diacritic to indicate lack of tone, like the virama of Indic.

For, the letters associated with those numbers are K, L, M, N, O, ..., respectively.

For example, consider the following two strings of length 64, each containing only lowercase letters and digits:

For example, the Arabic letters transliterated as and have the same basic shape, but has one dot below,, and has two dots above,.

For example, letters 1, 5, and 8 contain a discussion on the question, whether the use of a piece of metal with the figure of a lion, as a talisman, is permitted by Jewish law for medicinal purposes, or is prohibited as idolatrous.

For the most part, Bayer assigned Greek and Latin letters to stars in rough order of apparent brightness, from brightest to dimmest, within a particular constellation.

For example, semaphore, where the configuration of flags held by a signaller or the arms of a semaphore tower encodes parts of the message, typically individual letters and numbers.

For example, he believed ( as most Romans ) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had used the censorship to introduce the letter " R " and so used his own term to introduce his new letters.

For example, in Spanish the letter ñ is treated as a basic letter following n, and the digraphs ch and ll were formerly ( until 1994 ) treated as basic letters following c and l, although they are now alphabetized as two-letter combinations.

For example, in German dictionaries the word ökonomisch comes between offenbar and olfaktorisch, while Turkish dictionaries treat o and ö as different letters, placing oyun before öbür.

For example, the Russian letters Ъ and Ь ( which in writing are only used for modifying the preceding consonant ), and usually also Ы, Й and Ё, are usually omitted.

For some subjects a numerical geographical subdivision follows the classification letters on the first line.

For example, the letter क is read ka, ( not ' kaah '; similar to German suffix-e, as in Deutsche ) the two letters कन are kana, the three कनय are kanaya, etc.

The reverse of the medal has the inscription " For Distinguished Service " at the top in raised letters, and within the pentagon the inscription " From The Secretary of Defense To ," all in raised letters.

For the British Empire and colonies, a determination of the date of Easter Sunday using Golden Numbers and Sunday letters was defined by the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750 with its Annexe.

For example, the planets that orbit the pulsar PSR 1257 are often referred to with capital rather than lowercase letters.

For example, the word cat consists of three letters ⟨ c ⟩, ⟨ a ⟩, and ⟨ t ⟩, in which ⟨ c ⟩ represents the sound, ⟨ a ⟩ the sound, and ⟨ t ⟩ the sound.

For example, the fundamental group of the figure eight is the free group on two letters.

For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").