In the prior two decades, it rose more than 6 percent a year, on average.
Still, more than 250,000 acres of open space and farmland have been protected since 1994, nearly as much as in the prior three decades combined, officials say.
This is in sharp contrast to the prior two decades of globalisation, when more and more of the goods we bought were made overseas.
There are bonuses on both sides: I saw more rainbows in two days, easily, than I have the prior four decades of my life combined.
Over 50,000 miles of telegraph wire were strung across the country in the prior two decades, and by November 1861 a transcontinental network was complete.
But to put the industry risk into perspective, as of 2010, there had been 57 documented transmissions and 143 possible transmissions of HIV amongst healthcare workers in the prior three decades, a count described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as "extremely rare".
Since 2000, the Latin American region as a whole has increased its growth rate to about 1.9% annually per capita – not like the pre-1980 era, but a serious improvement over the prior two decades when it was just 0.3%.
That song and I are the same age, and there's a good chance that it had wound its way into my aural periphery in the prior two decades, but this ad — more of a miniature music video, not unlike Volkswagen's resurrection of "Pink Moon," later that same year — was the first time I'd had a moment with it.
Smart phones with Web applications are today displacing classic cellphones at an enormous rate because of enormous chip content, the same factor that propelled the PC throughout the prior two decades.
Did his colleagues not know that there had not been a nationwide run-up in house prices over the prior seven decades?
