decade

Example Sentences

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As Brand fell mostly out of public favor within the past decade, he pivoted his focus to religious and “free-thinking” content.

From Los Angeles Times

“By placing higher-growth assets into a Roth structure early in his career, he is positioning decades of potential appreciation to occur entirely tax-free.”

From MarketWatch

Nearly a decade later in 2010, employment records show he was contracted by Mission Essential, one of the largest companies that supplied interpreters in Afghanistan to Western forces.

From Los Angeles Times

The incident in Plateau state is unrelated to the long-running Islamist insurgency in the country's north-east, where jihadist groups have been battling the state for more than a decade.

From BBC

Now 77 and long since cured, he has spent decades advocating for people with leprosy.

From The Wall Street Journal