First we learned that Owen Smith couldn't remember the score from the Wales v Belgium match in June, and that Jeremy Corbyn couldn't recognise a photo of Ant and Dec. Fascinating stuff, no doubt, to a nation experiencing a decade-long squeeze in living standards, and a deeply uncertain economic future.
At Lufthansa, for example, employees experienced a decade of relentless change and cost cutting measures.
The country had experienced a decade of remarkable economic growth and liberalization, and many Chinese had been exposed to foreign ideas and standards of living.
On average, he said, post-Soviet countries have experienced a decade of 8 or 9percentt annual growth, and people have grown to expect it.
There was absolutely nothing that we could have done back in September-October of 2008 that would have required that we experience a decade of double-digit unemployment.
Until the crisis hit, Spain had experienced a decade of robust expansion and was praised as a European success story, its economy fueled by easy credit and an explosion in home construction.
It's true that he has quashed fears that post-bubble, post-9/11 America would resemble post-bubble Japan, which experienced a decade of economic stagnation following the 1991 collapse of the Nikkei.
The weaker economies in the euro zone experienced a decade of higher living standards before it became necessary for the wealthier members, such as Germany and France, to step in and bail out Greece, a less vibrant Mediterranean country.
While Russia has experienced a decade of historic, double-digit market growth, as in the case of India, the lack of transparency in government regulation makes it a difficult market to enter.
Cluj-Napoca experienced a decade of decline during the 1990s, its international reputation suffering from the policies of its mayor of the time, Gheorghe Funar.
