In the well-fed U.S., deficiency diseases have virtually vanished in the past 20 years.

Use of the question hour has increased markedly over the past forty years, with more than 20, 000 questions being posed during the 1987-90 term.

One out of three people with bipolar disorder report past attempts of suicide or complete it, and the annual average suicide rate is 0. 4 %, which is 10 to 20 times that of the general population.

" Veeder threw a 20 to 30-yard completion in leading Yale past Harvard 6 – 0 before 32, 000 fans in New Haven on November 24, 1906.

With his second feature film, Istanbul Under My Wings ( 1995 ), he also brought an unexpected vivacity to the Turkish Cinema whose film production had decreased dramatically and whose number of viewers had neared to nothing during the past 20 years.

As of 2005, the House of Lords has rejected its past decisions no more than 20 times.

Paraffin wax refers to a mixture of alkanes that falls within the 20 ≤ n ≤ 40 range ; they are found in the solid state at room temperature and begin to enter the liquid phase past approximately.

In the past 20 years, common bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, Serratia marcescens and Enterococcus, have developed resistance to various antibiotics such as vancomycin, as well as whole classes of antibiotics, such as the aminoglycosides and cephalosporins.

Department spokesman Guillermo Cole stated that " It's the best it's been in the lifetime for virtually every resident in this county … We've seen a steady decrease in pollution levels over the past decade and certainly over the past 20, 30, 40, 50 years or more.

Rockall has also been a point of interest for adventurers and amateur radio operators who variously in the past have landed on or occupied the islet for up to several months, although fewer than 20 individuals have ever been confirmed to have landed on Rockall.

Over the past 20 years, scholarly publications, professional and academic organizations, and graduate programs in world history have proliferated, although the WHA is still predominantly an American phenomenon.

The book features a collection of photographs of Williams from the past 20 years of his career and discussion of them by Williams as transcribed by Heath.

10-minute play: Popularized over the past 20 years and now a staple of most play festivals, and many play contests.

According to a New York Times article, “ More Americans Rejecting Marriage in 50s and Beyond ”, in the past 20 years, the divorce rate has increased over 50 % amongst the baby boomers.

In the past 20 years, 15 million people worldwide have been cured of leprosy.

Before coming on stage, Trent Reznor explained how Numan was " vitally important and a huge inspiration " to him during the past 20 years.

Over the past 20 years, the area has morphed from a derelict brothel and juke joint neighborhood to a gentrified, well-lit, nicely paved home of the " Trolley Night " where patrons of the arts stroll down the street witnessing fire spinners, djs playing in front of clubs, specialty shops and galleries.

The region has, however, benefited from major government and European Union investment over the past 20 years.

It flows west past Coudersport then turns north into western New York, looping westward across southern Cattaraugus County for approximately 30 miles ( 48 km ), past Portville, Olean, St. Bonaventure University and Salamanca and flowing through Seneca Indian Nation lands close to the northern boundary of Allegany State Park before re-entering northwestern Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) southeast of Jamestown, New York.

Namibia's colonial and Apartheid past had resulted in a situation where about 20 percent of the population owned about 75 percent of all the land.

In the past 20 years, communication technology has made this possible and has moved very rapidly.

On 20 April 1939 Fuller was an honoured guest at Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday parade and watched as " for three hours a completely mechanised and motorised army roared past the Führer.

Other sources place the total number of fatalities at 100, 000 over the past 6 years or 20, 000 per year on average ( 2008 ).

Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.

My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.

To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

In the past twenty years the ratio of state-owned automobiles per state employees has varied from 1 to 22 then to 1 to 23 now.

For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.

The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain military supply items.

This delightful tropical fruit has become well-known in the past thirty years because modern transportation methods have made it possible to ship avocados anywhere in the United States.

As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, Jr., Bench Show Chmn. of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog world to address them.

Gradually he withdrew from the shop altogether, and for the past thirty years, he has worked independently as a painter, except for his continued hunting and fishing expeditions.

From the wealth of material and the wide variety of different electronic techniques perfected in the past few years we have selected a few examples which appear to be headed for use in the immediate future and which offer completely new tools in medical research.

Thus, direct comparisons can be drawn with free burning arcs which have been studied in detail during the past years and decades by numerous investigators ( Ref. 3 ).

The biological and physical properties of infectious particles have been studied intensively during the past fifteen years.

It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??

The state had elected Republican candidates in the past two years.

By applying this general principle, a great number of complex compounds of osmium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium, with triphenylphosphine, triphenylarsine, and triphenylstibine have been obtained in this laboratory during the past few years.

In the past an orthodontist might have tried, over four or five years, to straighten and fit the boy's large teeth into a jaw that, despite some growth, would never accommodate them.

Otherwise, freedom would mean removal from the state in which `` as the place of their past residence from birth, or for many years, it would be materially for their advantage to be at liberty to remain ''.

Some idea of the competence of the women is indicated in the contribution made by them during the past 25 years that totals $840,000.

In the past few years the men, mostly husbands of members, have taken an interest.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

Probably the hottest thing that has hit the Dallas investment community in years was the Morton Foods stock issue, which was sold to the public during the past week.

I have, within the past fifty years, come out of all uncertainty into a faith which is a dominating conviction of the Truth and about which I have not a shadow of doubt.