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  • But gentrifying or decaying neighborhoods can create formidable obstacles for filmmakers seeking to tell period city-set stories using streets and skylines indelibly altered even in the past half-decade.

    Channeling Bay Ridge Past Bruce Bennett 2011

  • Sure, there are still the cowboy boots and hats along with the jeans and flip-flops, but there's also noteworthy women's shops like By George and denim house HEM Jeans that point to the undertow of fashion that has swept the city over the last half-decade.

    Joah Spearman: South by Southwest: Trending Toward Fashion Joah Spearman 2011

  • Per-Anders Pettersson For The Wall Street Journal The country's economy has been growing at a double-digit clip powered by services, agriculture and infrastructure building for the past half-decade.

    Ethiopia's Consumer Class 2011

  • Sure, there are still the cowboy boots and hats along with the jeans and flip-flops, but there's also noteworthy women's shops like By George and denim house HEM Jeans that point to the undertow of fashion that has swept the city over the last half-decade.

    Joah Spearman: South by Southwest: Trending Toward Fashion Joah Spearman 2011

  • The country's economy has been growing at a double-digit clip powered by services, agriculture and infrastructure building for the past half-decade.

    A Continent of New Consumers Beckons Peter Wonacott 2011

  • So it should come as no surprise that some of the biggest battles faced by technology companies over the next half-decade will be in the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated staff.

    Rewards and More Nigel Kendall 2011

  • So it should come as no surprise that some of the biggest battles faced by technology companies over the next half-decade will be in the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated staff.

    Rewards and More Nigel Kendall 2011

  • Still, State started the season ranked No. 18 in the Associated Press poll and expectations among fans were as high as they had been in a half-decade in Starkville.

    Southeastern Conference 2010

  • As a SHINE volunteer, I have had the privilege of working closely with SHINE's board of directors and seeing the amazing work both they, Todd and the dozens of SHINE employees and volunteers on the ground in Pakistan have done over the past half-decade.

    Ehsan Zaffar: SHINE Makes It Easy To Donate Stress-Free To Pakistani Flood Victims, Earthquake Victims In Haiti Ehsan Zaffar 2010

  • This brings to mind a shift that has been happening in the music industry for the last half-decade if not longer: fewer and fewer arena-level touring acts and more and more club-level acts.

    Joah Spearman: South by Southwest: Trending Toward Fashion Joah Spearman 2011

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