Refugees camps, place decades-long strains on Nepal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Pension plans say they take a decades-long view of potential returns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pension Gaps Loom Larger] Reference

The decades-long rule of dictator Nicolae CEAUSESCU, who took power in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

I mean, I think it just takes I think it's a decades-long process, not an overnight process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Money Explains Latest Economic Numbers] Reference

Even on the decades-long impasse over Cyprus, Ankara is inching toward a negotiated solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fears Of A Muslim Ally] Reference

But it continues a decades-long slide in state discretion, one overseen by members of both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Support for State Ingenuity in the Capital] Reference

Last week, a commission began investigating the final phase of a horrendous decades-long civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Henne: Treading Water in Sri Lanka] Reference

The more you have, the better it gets, has been the decades-long mantra of commercialized femininity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Get The Wrong Message] Reference

This is the start of a decades-long tussle between the U.S. and China for preeminence in the Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle For Preeminence] Reference

Similar effects in primates are just becoming available through a decades-long study in rhesus monkeys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Say Die] Reference

But maybe it is, and if so, that means that our decades-long reliance on worker retraining is misplaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Money: Maybe it's job retraining that needs to be retooled] Reference

Glass, a decades-long devotee of Gandhi (and a Buddhist now himself), talked to NEWSWEEK's Vibhuti Patel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gandhi’s Wonder Years] Reference

GOODWYN: Myers blames BP management for their decades-long focus on cutting costs at the expense of safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Action Against Spill Spreads Across Gulf Coast] Reference

Plus, it enables projects the private sector can't or won't back, such as decades-long projects and development aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Loans To Nowhere] Reference

Her husband. novelist Julian Barnes, was outraged and sent Amis a letter declaring their decades-long friendship dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Infamous Martin Amis] Reference

That decades-long collaboration turned out any number of hits and earned Miller his first Grammy for R&B Song of the Year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcus Miller Performs Live in NPR's Studio 4A] Reference

It's the country's first since the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels last year and the end of a bloody decades-long civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sri Lanka Election Down To The Wire] Reference

  Prior to that, she had toured the country twice to highlight the decades-long plight of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angelina Jolie Tours Flood Damage in NW Pakistan] Reference

He has fought for years to get justice for black farmers who were victims of widespread, decades-long discrimination by the USDA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Gunther: With All Eyes on the Sherrod Story, Black Farmers Still Wait (and Wait) For Justice] Reference

DOUBTERS BE DAMNED: South Korea's perennial opposition candidate last week finally completed a decades-long quest to become president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dj's Rare Chance] Reference

The decades-long dog-fight between Europe and the United States for command of the commercial-airline market has recently turned ugly.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FIGHT PLAN] Reference

The referendums mark the culmination of a peace agreement, signed in 2005, between the north and south to end a decades-long civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Leaders Back Sudan Vote] Reference

Mr. Madoff, 72 years old, admitted in March 2009 to running a decades-long Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions of dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trustee Seeks Funds From Madoff Family Entities] Reference

The United States 'decades-long case against IBM, ultimately unsuccessful, did provide breathing room for new players, including Microsoft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States versus Bill Gates] Reference

The ruling deals a blow to Anheuser's decades-long battle with Czech competitor Budejovicky Budvar NP for control of the Budweiser name in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Rejects Appeal for Bud Trademark] Reference

Fossil fuels continue to power the U.S. economy and energy companies have a decades-long record of safely extracting resources from the Gulf of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress's Hugo Ch] Reference

Thus one of the first great tests for the newly formed United States of America was a decades-long confrontation with the Arab corsairs of North Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intimate Strangers] Reference

But truth is that decades-long Red Sox fans tend to be imbued with a pessimism so dark and twisted that a couple of miracle victories can't quite undo it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: On a Limp and a Prayer] Reference

Mr. Madoff admitted in March 2009 to running a decades-long Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of billions of dollars and is serving 150 years in prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Adviser Starr Seeks Release on Bail] Reference

Meanwhile, in the two years prior, bubonic plague had killed approximately 135,000 Amsterdam residents and the region was mired in decades-long military conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flood Of Flowers] Reference

Experts now think of Alzheimer's not as a sudden calamity but as a decades-long process involving at least a half-dozen steps -- each of which provides a target for intervention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disappearing Mind] Reference