decade
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The project was initiated a decade ago, she said, but construction only began in the last two months.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
A gas station owner last decade sued to block a competing gas station across the street from adding several new pumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Whatever the case, the Dodgers could face the kind of difficult roster choices they often have papered over with money this decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Between 1979 and 2014, sea ice extent around Antarctica increased by approximately 1 percent per decade.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
For a decade now, Devaney had sponsored this conference—called ASF, or the American Securitization Forum, in part because it sounded more dignified than the Association for Subprime Lending.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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It’s an extension of an ethos championed by Dumas’s father, Jean-Louis, who ran the company for close to three decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
He described it as an "investment in Rwanda's future" that would bring "jobs, skills, tourism and new business to our country and our region for decades to come".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
"A flagship show deserves flagship facilities, from which both the BBC and the city of Birmingham would benefit for decades," the letter said.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Eyo-Dae Kim and Susan Kim attended the University of Southern California decades ago, two international students with little money and no family in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Americans knew the blood-soaked history of the Haitian revolution a few decades earlier.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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