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
Half a decade later, a lot has changed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift has been in the works for than a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
In 1867, nearly a decade after the publication of Origin, he began to complete a new manuscript, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in which he would fully explicate this view of inheritance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Even if, like Wall Street Journal reader Marc Gordon, you bought an index fund or two and “let it ride” for a couple of decades, you can be under the same curse.
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
Leonardo had dissected his first cadaver decades before.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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