decade
Example Sentences
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It’s trust, something that took decades for the WHO to earn through repeated successes.
From Salon
Whatever institutional knowledge might have been built up over the last two decades is gone.
From Salon
Related: Financial stocks are off to their worst yearly start in a decade.
From MarketWatch
A country more than three times the size of Iraq with a population of around 90 million, Iran is a more serious opponent than the U.S. has faced in direct conflict in decades.
A retired shopkeeper who was told he was not British despite living in the UK for nearly five decades said he is "over the moon" to have been finally made a British citizen.
From BBC
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