decade
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It says the climate we used to know in the 20th century is now a thing of the past, with the UK warming approximately 0.25C per decade since the 1980s.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
On Tuesday Andy Burnham said a serious review of MPs' security was needed after politics had "darkened" over the past decade.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The U.K. ended quarterly reporting requirements about a decade ago, though many companies still report quarterly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Arya said he remains upbeat about semiconductor, networking and chip-equipment stocks, and he still expects artificial-intelligence spending to more than double to $1.7 trillion by the end of the decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Decade by decade, the Mary Rose slipped deeper and deeper into the seabed until it was almost completely forgotten.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Shanahan started with Walmart’s then-U.K. subsidiary Asda nearly three decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
His ideas were controversial until they were confirmed by experiments over three decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"It's made of very solid material and it's very difficult to establish new technologies because lots of people have been there for decades and they are don't share his vision of digitalisation."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Bayelsa is where oil was first discovered in Africa in the 1950s, and where companies, including Shell, have operated for decades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
At the end of his trial four decades earlier, he had told reporters he intended to live a fairly quiet life from that point on—quiet, at least, in comparison to the tumultuous Pentagon Papers years.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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