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decade

A decade is a period of 10 years. The 1960s was a decade of great change in North America.

decade

a period of 10 years (= ten) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system

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We have experienced many changes over the last decade.
Malware? This word will be a hit. It could become the word of the decade and, why not, of the century.
How many years are there in a decade?
The genesis of that idea can be traced back to a casual conversation a decade earlier.
The grief-stricken family had to wait more than a decade to see their son's killer brought to justice.
After nearly collapsing, the U.S. auto industry has added nearly 250,000 jobs-the fastest pace of job growth in more than a decade.
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
Decade is the space of ten years.
I'll have you know I've been in the business for over a decade.
Some scientists believe that our first contact with extra-terrestrial life will occur in the next decade or so.
Crime rates have gone down significantly over the past decade.

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This dramatic transition from Confucian equipoise to anarchy had taken little more than a decade.
While it's been a spectacular ride in the last decade to find these planets, most of them are giant planets.
If she did, and she shared those with us, that would represent the biggest intelligence coup in a decade.
The most sensational jewel robbery of a decade the disappearance of a two-million franc string of pearls from Duvalle and Company, the famous jewellers, still goes unsolved.
As the dizzy decade nears its end the country is stock-market crazy.
It doesn't look as though we'll marry Isabella off for another decade.
His father served as a deacon for over a decade.
In the final decade of the 21st century men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
The greatest golf story of the decade, and I'd fluffed it.
Your sister has tried it a decade ago to learn what I knew.
Mr. Ffolly-Hardwicke's visit was the first for a decade.
Some folks have compared the wait for your new novel to the decade-plus wait for the new Guns n' Roses album.
We must also mention that in the last decade when the president was simultaneously first party secretary people pointed out all the mistakes made.
I've got a decade on the pope.
The 1920s a wild, restless decade that spawned the speakeasy and the bootlegger.
You set the whole hemisphere back a decade.
Cinnamon, this is a book called The Purple Decade.
Is it true the book The Purple Decade was written about you?
Today I stood next to probably the worst madman of the decade.
During the next decade, the problems of overpopulation, of poverty and of militarism, must be met squarely, if we are to survive.
These files represent all of the surgical cases on which I have served over a decade - some 1200.
WOMAN: (ON RADIO) Philadelphia Flyers record run in the women's 100 yard dash was point five seconds better than Wilma Rudolph's Olympic record set a decade ago.
This is how I will take my revenge on them for a decade's imprisonment.
For decade he ran the Powick unit.
New Years Eve - the last decade of the 19th century.
This historic flight, preceded by nearly a decade of research and preparation has been shrouded by the most rigorous security precautions.
What would you regard as the most outstanding and significant event of the last decade?
Naples, still suffers a decade of bad governments.
You see, I've noticed lately, well, over the last decade or so, an enormous fluctuation in relative wavelength transduction over a particularly narrow band.
During the second decade of this century the world's largest telescope was being assembled on Mount Wilson overlooking what were then the clear skies of Los Angeles.
America, enjoying a decade of unequaled prosperity. has gone wild.
No social gathering is without its Leonard Zelig joke. and in a decade of popular dance crazes. a new one sweeps the nation.
We are 91 days from the end of this decade, and there's gonna be a lot of refugees.
The greatest decade in the history of mankind is over.
Well, this guy is the phony of the decade. yet you act like he was your long-lost best friend.
This has been a very slow decade.

News and current affairs

One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980's.
But, without further profound political and economic integration - which may not end up including all current eurozone members - the euro may not make it even to the end of this decade.
These imbalances can be redressed only with great effort, if at all, and only if one accepts a decade of stagnation.
In the 1920's, some warned about an overpriced stock market, but they did not predict a decade-long depression affecting the entire economy.
The population, frustrated by ever deepening impoverishment and isolation, is beginning to question what happened over the past decade in Serbia.
The highest costs currently stem from espionage and crime; but, over the next decade or so, cyber war and cyber terrorism may become greater threats than they are today.
The second was the decade of successful business-cycle management by Alan Greenspan's independent, apolitical, and technocratic Fed during the 1990s.
He would be shocked to look at today's world: a Europe with stubbornly high unemployment, a Japan mired in a decade of near stagnation, and now an America lacking the policy tools to deal with any additional unexpected economic bad news.
In March, a leaked Bush administration report showed that US emissions were expected to rise almost as fast over the next decade as they did during the previous decade.
Fracking is not a panacea, but it really is by far this decade's best green-energy option.
Over the course of a decade, the world appeared to forget about us.
A decade ago, people spoke of the end of history, meaning the ultimate triumph of a liberal capitalist political order.
A decade ago, the West turned its back on Afghanistan and chaos ensued.
Both have saved millions of lives during the past decade, and have paved the way to a new more efficient and scientifically sound method of development assistance.
Although it is right that the Stability and Growth Pact has become more flexible in these extraordinary times, its rules did secure a successful first decade for the euro.
At the current rate, Afghanistan's old growth forest could vanish within a decade.
As for Lubanga, he is one of many in the Congo who has used civilians as pawns in a war that has cost more than five million lives in the past decade.
A decade ago, fewer than 10,000 people were taking the new generation of antiretroviral drugs that suppress the disease and offer the promise of a normal life.
Over the past decade, Kim Jong-il has emphasized the importance of his military-first policy.
The trip is being carefully managed by both countries, and is being watched closely around the world, with good reason: Sino-Japanese relations over the past decade have been turbulent, to say the least.
We all stand to lose from a reversal of the economic and social progress made across Africa in the past decade.
European farmers also want to maintain current subsidy levels, and EU members say that they are unlikely to make any reductions before the end of the decade.

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