a generation ago

Other colleges, though, are trying to drum up excitement by offering perks that would have been unheard of a generation ago.

But just as striking is how much men and women agree on issues that divided them a generation ago.

Just a generation ago, when communist ideology reigned supreme, their parents "ate bitterness" in canteens on agricultural communes.

Only a generation ago social planners worried about what people would do with all this new-found free time.

In the rich world, diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago no longer exist, hardly.

But a generation ago, the number was close to 10%, as internal promotions and transfers were used to fill virtually all positions.

Ireland was one of the EU's poorest countries a generation ago.

A generation ago young people aspired to become lawyers and doctors. Now they yearn to be the next Oscar winner or celebrity pop star.

So why are funds for agricultural development in Africa only a fraction of what they were a generation ago?

My younger daughter has just got a place at Oxford which, a generation ago, was a fail-safe passport to a decent job.

A generation ago, the average, traditional family was composed of a father, mother, and at least two children.

By and large , the British working class is better off today than it was a generation ago .

Just a generation ago, women were largely confined to repetitive, menial jobs.

Highly educated men are much more likely to marry highly educated women than they were a generation ago.

The tycoon belongs to the minority among the Taiwanese whose families came to the island only a generation ago.

Today's younger drinkers know less about this region than their counterparts a generation ago.

A generation ago it was rare to hear the Koran recited, except on formal occasions such as funerals or during the fasting month of Ramadan.

Marginal and average tax rates still rise with income, but overall tax structures are much flatter than they were a generation ago.

A generation ago, the idea of American office workers munching cheerfully on uncooked tuna would have been almost laughable.

Professional portrait photographers, similarly, are less in demand today than they were a generation ago.

A generation ago Iran was assaulted by an Arab army headed by Iraq's Saddam Hussein, leaving a million dead.

There are economic costs that did not weigh a generation ago, when consumer culture had yet to take hold.

A generation ago, your life as a Chinese person was mostly decided for you by the state.

During the aughts, construction provided an outlet for the young men who would have gone into manufacturing a generation ago.

Indeed, Ms Smith is one of many people who consider "distracted driving" today the direct equivalent of drunk driving a generation ago.

China's "one-child" policy, initiated a generation ago to curb population growth, has begun to restrict the supply of labor.

I do think you're going to have a few people that are doing things that kids probably couldn't do with telephones a generation ago.

There is little doubt that Americans' incomes are more variable than they were a generation ago, but the story is a nuanced one.

You can shut out the distractions on public transport in a way that was impossible a generation ago.

Marketing was a dirty word in China less than a generation ago, but even state-owned companies are have snapped up Olympic sponsorships.

A generation ago, inflation around the world was high and variable.

A generation ago, during a previous resource boom, African states set about building roads and railways.

A generation ago Toronto benefited from an influx of businesses from Montreal fleeing the threat of Quebec separatism.

Merely a generation ago, seniors were expected to retire, sit back and relax and watch the world go by.

CONTROVERSIAL when it began a generation ago, China's one-child policy is stirring yet more contention.

They are far from alone. A generation ago, home-schooling was rare and, in many states, illegal.

Only a generation ago computers were not really needed for NC control.

A generation ago, President Reagan proposed research intoa global shield to defend against ballistic missiles.

A generation ago Peru's social fabric was rent apart by economic collapse and political violence.

Released from the yoke of true communism a generation ago, they are extraordinarily entrepreneurial.

A generation ago, Chinese people had empty pockets in their dreary boiler suits.

a generation ago , china disputed most of its borders.

Asian countries that were destitute a generation ago now boast some of the highest living standards in the world.

A generation ago the biggest worry about poor countries was over-population.

A generation ago, Beijing was a city of bicycles.

A generation ago, private banking was largely dominated by clients who had inherited wealth.

All Beijing needs do is to abide by rules set almost a generation ago.

A generation ago, risk was concentrated in the banking industry.

Thus the "typical" Frenchmen produces more, earns more, and buys more comsumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago.

Young men are visibly more narcissistic than a generation ago.

A generation ago, revision notes became a lucrative industry, published under such imprints as Brodie's and York.

A generation ago, home-schooling was rare and, in many states, illegal.

A generation ago, the world fertility rate was around six kids per woman.

These are men who do business with the entire world, who have inherited a system which traded socialism for capitalism a generation ago.

A generation ago, only 10 percent of families had only children.

This has been known for a long time, and in fact government regulation drastically reduced environmental lead a generation ago.

There are five times as many suicides in South Korea as there were a generation ago, according to the government.

As a result, the wealthiest in China are faced with a problem unimaginable a generation ago: what to do with their money.

I think a lot of dads a generation ago were like mine.

China's 1. 4 billion people are rapidly urbanising and ravenous for all the goods they couldn't have a generation ago.

Yet Western expatriates in China have a far easier time than they did a generation ago.