Example sentences of "a decade [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's about a decade since the launch of the Karrimor K-SB3 , which brought about the so called lightweight boot revolution , and the last ten years have been the ideas evolve in a very effective manner . |
| 2 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's played for a decade for his country , he 's been an inspirational player . |
| 4 | Is it an accident that Quebec 's separatism became a major force at the end of a decade during which the Quebec birthrate had virtually halved and ( for the first time ) fallen well below that of Canada ? |
| 5 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 6 | The eighties was a decade of paradoxes , great and small . |
| 7 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 8 | IN A RASPING attack on the ‘ Pharisees ’ of British society who decry the unsuccessful , the jobless and the poor , the Archbishop of Canterbury has returned to his attack on a decade of Conservative government . |
| 9 | The People 's Liberation Army has strong-armed its way back into the centre of China 's political power-structure , after a decade of relative decline . |
| 10 | BRITAIN 'S projected £20bn trade deficit for this year is the market 's ‘ definitive judgement ’ on a decade of Tory government , Bryan Gould , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman told the conference yesterday , writes Judy Jones . |
| 11 | A decade of economic stagnation has forced families to turn schoolchildren into breadwinners . |
| 12 | Daily Telegraph : A decade of disappearing readers |
| 13 | The 1980s has been a decade of three-party politics . |
| 14 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
| 15 | For J. R. R. Tolkien , the 1930s were a decade of continuous literary activity . |
| 16 | The nuns are young because fresh recruitment — of monks as well as nuns — was stopped during a decade of suppression and allowed only after reform in 1981 initiated by the then Communist Party secretary-general , Mr Hu Yaobang . |
| 17 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 18 | BRITAIN could face a decade of high unemployment if it became a full member of the European Monetary System without a sharp fall in the pound , according to a pressure group , the Campaign for Work . |
| 19 | The 1980s have been a decade of poverty for the poorly paid , with almost two out of every five full-time workers in Britain — nearly six million in all — now earning wages below the decency threshold set by the Council of Europe , the Low Pay unit says ( writes Larry Elliott ) . |
| 20 | A sure-footed City scribbler Tim Congdon of Gerrard & National writes : ‘ The 1980s will be remembered as a decade of remarkable growth in all forms of credit . ’ |
| 21 | The election itself came only after a decade of political squabbling . |
| 22 | Official Hungary is not a pleasant place to live in , say the statisticians : GDP fell by 5% in 1990 after a decade of near-stagnation . |
| 23 | The people took most of the money , but decried it as a decade of greed . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , British firms did take on much more debt in 1988–90 , after almost a decade of using record profits to slim debts . |
| 25 | We need to make more progress in achieving a decade of retirement between the ages of sixty and seventy with men and women deciding for themselves when they want to retire . |
| 26 | I do n't think we will talk sensibly about a Decade of Evangelism if we give a cross theology second or third place in our preaching . |
| 27 | Launched on a miniscule budget and a surge of dubious optimism , held together in the first eighteen months by a poultice of desperation and blind faith ( not to mention liberal applications of cow gum and sellotape ) , still independent after a decade of brinkmanship publishing this is a tremendous achievement . |
| 28 | At the V&A museum 's ‘ Collecting For The Future : A Decade of Contemporary Acquisitions ’ , June 6 through to Aug 12 |
| 29 | Veterans of the Sunset Strip scene did a double-take when the Whiskey A-Go-Go — where The Doors once played as the in-house band for $500 a week — was restored to its Day-Glo glory after a decade of black paint and chrome fixtures . |
| 30 | She came to the throne after a decade of war and rationing . |