decade
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Evergrande's stock market valuation shrank by 99% before its shares were removed from the Hong Kong exchange in August 2025 after more than a decade and a half of trading.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The mochi balls of doughy rice filled with ice-cream exploded on TikTok, but its apparent overnight success was more than a decade in the making.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It’s become very difficult to hire young people,” said Aman Navani, senior research and policy analyst at the Work Foundation at Lancaster University, citing a 49% decline in starter-job vacancies over the last decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the last decade, worsening wildfires in California have burned about 14 million acres and destroyed more than 60,000 homes and structures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Adams, of course, had been trying to do just that for over a decade.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Physicists have studied charge density waves for decades.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
In 2012, Ratan Tata stepped away from the chairman role at Tata Sons after two decades at the helm, while remaining chairman of the trust until his death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It would take about an hour to build and you would need to do nothing else for the next three decades.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Other defensible space requirements have been on the books for decades, and dictate how homeowners must manage their yard through the spacing of trees, the removal of dead vegetation and other precautions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
She kept up with old friends, and she also made plenty of new ones, some decades younger than she was.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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