He is one of only two prime ministers since the Napoleonic wars to secure an unbroken decade at No 10.
Venice then surrendered the Morea and Dalmatia, its last possessions in the Aegean Sea, thus assuring an Ottoman naval supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean that remained unbroken for three decades.
It is an unbroken chain that spans decades, from Joe Gilliam to Doug Williams to Steve McNair.
While not all the members are elderly by any means, the observer program stresses continuity, and many members pride themselves on decades of unbroken daily reporting.
The sad state of affairs in Mexico was created in large part by the old political regime, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which lost the presidency last year after seven decades of unbroken rule.
Among Democrats, Netanyahu's alliance with the GOP alienated officeholders and voters alike, rupturing decades of unbroken bipartisan support for Israel.
And about his two "golden handcuffs" deals with ITV that ended in 2005 when he disappeared from our screens after a decade of unbroken success.
That growth rate -- to 1,348 from 257 units in 1970 -- is huge, said John Nolon, director of the Land Use Law Center at Pace University, attributable to open land in a neglected pocket and nearly a decade of unbroken prosperity.
Japan's voters go to the polls on Sunday in elections that look set to deliver a painful setback to the governing Democratic Party of Japan, only three years after it ended decades of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.
The betting is that the LDP, which lost power in 2009 after decades of near-unbroken rule, may win the most seats and get the first chance at forming a governing coalition.
