decade

Example Sentences

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Snow across California’s Sierra Nevada measured just 18% of average Monday — among the smallest in decades.

From Los Angeles Times

Most of those cases had been opened by Grady O’Malley, an assistant U.S. attorney who oversaw several prosecutions of union corruption while working in the New Jersey office over four decades.

From Salon

Even two decades later, and with two young children of her own, she said she was often stopped in the street by people seeking advice on their own children's hair.

From BBC

For more than a decade, the 72-year-old championed the hottest asset class on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal

The challenge is that reliable samples from decades ago are hard to find.

From Science Daily