The demonstrations constituted Swaziland's biggest civil movement for over a decade, since the last large-scale protests in 1996.

Changes in the value of housing benefit constitute the sixth reform of welfare since 1979.

Hispanic residents now constitute nearly 24 percent of the country's poor, up eight percentage points since 1985.

This action constituted the Russian Navy's first real sea battle since 1945.

This constitutes a decrease of 3.4% or 36 people since the 2001 census.

Last week's bombings in Baghdad constituted the deadliest single attack since the American invasion.

That additional coverage constituted the most substantial expansion of the Medicare program since its inception in 1965.

The court's creation perhaps constitutes the most significant reform of international law since 1945.

The reform constituted the largest shake up of the police since independence.

Their bill, so far given scant chance of passage, would constitute the most far-reaching change of the system since Watergate.