Fast forward more than two decades

Over the past few decades, amphibian populations have been rapidly disappearing worldwide.

For the past two hours...

In the United States, 20 million new jobs have been created during the past two decades, most of them in the service sector.

Over the past two decades, since the end of the Cold War, there has been an overall decline in the number of civil wars.

Despite the up and down since then, the overall trend and this is the important bit clearly points downward for the past two decades.

Look a decade ago, look two decades ago markedly different.

This institution is government backed and it has been the case for the past three decades.

I've been doing, I've been doing working memory studies for two decades.

They have also given funding for two decades to this whole program.

The last two decades have been the champagne era for dirty lucre.

How could he have slipped past two sentries?

Nobody you know. Two women from past generations.

When you go into spaces like this, you're directly accessing the past, because they sit untouched for decades.

Over several decades,

But it got violent in the last two decades and includes decapitation and the death of two mayors.

There is two ways to be past oriented, two ways to be future.

The rain has lasted for the past two days.

I haven't been busy for these past two days.

That's been very popular for a very long time as had Michael been in decades and decades and decades.

And Rick Astley's kind of rebirth these past two years ...

So for three decades,

There has been no rain here for the past two weeks.

Now, he's been away on assignment for the past two months.

What's past is past.

For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

We've spent decades professionalizing implementation.

It's been done for decades.

I feel like I did nothing but eat these past two days.

Secondly, in the past two decades, thanks to globalization, thanks to the market economy, thanks to the rise of a middle class, we in Turkey see what I define as a rebirth of Islamic modernism.

So decades ago, not years ago,

And it went on for decades.

What we see for more than two decades is that open source has consistently out innovated proprietary software.

(Applause.) For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country.

They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world flattening digitization technologies, right?

I have been as busy as a bee for the past two months.

Tom has been living out of a suitcase for the past two months.

The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades.

I've been trying to get a hold of you for the past two hours.

He has had that job for decades.

This was a startup killer for decades.

Since then it's been four decades now

We are living into extraordinary decades ahead.

But we have, somehow, in the course of the last few centuries, or even decades, started to cultivate an image of a mythical, rural agricultural past.

Simple Past