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China's leaders have talked for five decades about acquiring what they call "aircraft mother ships".

And ultimately, as we have seen with the recent passing of Amendment 1 in North Carolina, policies touted under the banner of assumedly desirable "traditional families" are, and have been for at least five decades, about restricting state support for a range of "deviant" relationships and domesticities from unmarried partnerships to multigenerational and single parent households.

Hong Kong has no agreement with China, and talks have gone on, inconclusively, for about two decades about an agreement.

We might well end 2002 with the lowest number of murders in four decades, about 570 at the present rate.

He cued another singalong for a line in a song praising "Señora de las Cuatro Decadas" ("Lady of Four Decades"), about "belly fat aerobics can't remove".

Mrs. Sterling maintains that the F.B.I., the Drug Enforcement Administration and American police agencies were in the dark for two decades about the extent of Sicilian penetration.

Like Henry Allingham, who died aged 113 just weeks ago, Harry kept silent for over eight decades about the horrors he witnessed in the trenches.

For more than two decades about 30,000 children abducted from northern Uganda provided the fuel for Kony's cult-like LRA.

WASHINGTON — Researchers discovered during the Reagan administration that contaminated fresh eggs sickened thousands of people, but federal officials squabbled for two decades about how to solve the problem.

"Voters don't like political attack dogs," Mr. Luntz said, "and they have complained for two decades about the negativity of politics".

Muslims make up about 6percentt of the population, and there have been sharp debates in the Netherlands for nearly two decades about the role of Muslim immigrants in political and social life.