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How To Use decade In A Sentence

• We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
• He had 112 helpers, many of whom had worked on some of the best fantasy movies of the past decade. Times, Sunday Times
• They are accused of hatching a decade-long plot to keep wholesale oil prices artificially high. The Sun
• For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
• Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%. Tap Your Inner Buffett
• Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
• But decades of research have gone by and scientists remain incapable of creating a sustainable fusion reaction that could be used to create reliable power.
• At least 5,500 people have died during the past decade in fighting between government and rebel forces.
• Or a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem that has dogged homebuyers for decades? Times, Sunday Times
• But on the gender front, the sex ratio among children up to age 6 dropped to 914 girls for each 1,000 boys from 927 a decade ago, showing that female foeticide continues to be a widespread practice because of a traditional preference in some communities for boys. India Passes 1.2 Billion Mark