decade

Example Sentences

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It achieved the biggest opening weekend takings for a non-fiction feature in the last decade, according to Deadline.

From BBC

For a decade and a half, I have wondered about a private conversation I had with the late Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gordon Brown, about the financial crisis.

From BBC

"This outcome should make plain that time does not preclude a successful prosecution; we will doggedly pursue justice for the victims of non-recent crimes, no matter how many decades have passed."

From BBC

Although optical cavities have been studied for decades, they have been difficult to use with atoms because atoms are extremely small and nearly transparent.

From Science Daily

It’s got one of the most hypnotic grooves heard on pop radio in the last decade!

From Los Angeles Times