There seems to be a general expectation that the tiny societies will finally disappear in the next 20 years.

"The words 'war comfort women' disappeared from textbooks in the last 10 years," he added.

He was the seventh official of the group to be slain or to disappear in the last seven years.

I hope the fringe parties will not gain any further power and will disappear again in the next few years.

Within the town itself, large factories and major employers have disappeared or relocated in the last ten years.

As a result many small and optimistic aircraft companies appeared, then quickly disappeared in the immediate postwar years.

Two other women have disappeared in the last two years.

Unemployment and individual poverty rates are on the rise again; more than 2.4 million jobs have disappeared in the last two years.

"These part-time summertime locations will probably disappear in the next 5 to 10 years."

The Mothers' Front is demanding information about more than 40,000 people it says have disappeared in the past few years.