He fails to mention, for example, that sales in the music industry, for the first time for more than a decade, have increased in the last year.
No government in decades has increased its vote while in power, not even Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair, let alone Cameron who couldn't score a knockout win over Gordon Brown.
A huge increase in international pilgrims over recent decades has increased pressure on the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, and the infrastructure needed to cope with a massive influx of people.
Women's advocacy groups said they were troubled that the government brief offered no praise for Title IX, which in three decades has increased women's participation in college sports to 157,000 female athletes from 30,000.
Intensification of cropping systems in recent decades has increased their productivity but affected air, soil and water quality.
The exponential expansion of money in politics and the upward transfer of wealth by policies established over several decades has increased the powerful hold of corporate elites over government, crushing democracy.
As a consequence, land degradation during the past decades has increased (Kessler and Stroosnijder 2006), and rural poverty remains a serious threat to sustainable development in Bolivia.
Nevertheless, the westernized dietary pattern and lifestyle in Taiwan in the last two decades has increased the incidences of metabolic disorders, including dyslipidemia, as well as breast cancer in Taiwanese females [ 4].
Climate and land use changes in the last decades have increased fire risk and danger.
Climate catastrophes over the past few decades have increased, and the reputable Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that storm intensity is likely to increase with continuing climate change.
