Over the next two decades, this share gradually reverted to the century-long norm of a quarter of the world economy.
In a culture where poverty and thrift were long the norm, their extravagances have become notorious.
Long the norm in Europe and other parts of the world, ads on sports uniforms in North America, with the exception of Major League Soccer, are one of the last frontiers of advertising in sports.
That's the long-held norm, and we are going to stick to it".
Article 2 also stipulates a basic long-standing norm that the organization shall not intervene in matters considered within the domestic jurisdiction of any state.
Germany's system of government, carefully constructed after the Nazi era to prevent the accumulation of state powers, means the authorities interfere less than officials in neighboring France, where the preservation of secularism is a long-established norm.
The long-term norm is for the yield of a 10-year AAA-rated general obligation municipal bond to be 85 percent of that for a 10-year Treasury note.
For example, if rents rise by an annual 2.5%, house prices would need to remain flat for 12 years to bring America's ratio of house prices to rents back to its long-term norm.
Indeed, he only threatened military strikes because he could see no other way both to stay true to the declaration he himself had made a year ago – that the use of chemical weapons would by a "red line" – and to enforce the long-established "norm" against such arms.
The ratio of stock prices to corporate earnings is currently at least twice the ratio's long-term norm (at least if you include writeoffs in earnings).
Monthly rainfall exceeded the long-term "norm", except for the most part of Predvolzhje, where the rainfall of only 28 70 % of the "norm" was registered.
