decade
Example Sentences
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The House and Senate recently passed their first significant bills in decades aimed at solving America’s housing shortage.
Even so, petroleum was still a lifeline for a nation mired in more than a decade of economic, political and social tumult marked by mass emigration, hyperinflation and a near-ubiquitous sense of despair.
From Los Angeles Times
For more than a decade, the area has been represented by Republican Dave Schweikert, a local political fixture since the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times
MILAN—For an entire decade, the Olympics couldn’t stop getting it wrong.
Yale trimmed its portfolio of leveraged buyouts for the first time in a decade.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
