11 sentences with 'decades'

Example sentences and phrases with the word decades and other words derived from it.

• « For whole decades, the green, tall, and primitive ferns had adorned their garden. »
decades: For whole decades, the green, tall, and primitive ferns had adorned their garden.
• « The mathematician solved a problem that had been unsolved for decades, using novel and creative methods. »
decades: The mathematician solved a problem that had been unsolved for decades, using novel and creative methods.
• « For decades, this company enjoyed a near monopoly in the computer industry. »
• « In a few years, if all goes well, I plan to retire from teaching, where I have been for four decades. »
• « Three decades ago, biologists discovered that these tiny powerhouses contain DNA very similar to that of ancient bacteria. »
• « And over decades of personal observation, I have also seen that the average person makes such mistakes from time to time in life. »
• « The late Moss Hart, who directed her several decades ago in My Fair Lady, paid an affectionate tribute to his tenacious young star: "Julie can rise to any occasion. »
• « In the following decades, other groups that remain impossible to identify precisely appear to have plundered Mycenaean palace complexes and various cities throughout the Near East. »
• « What is clear is that the invasions occurred over decades - from about 1180 to 1130 BC - and must have played an important role in the collapse of the Bronze Age political and economic system. »
• « Although Sparta could not take Athens on its own, Athens was essentially under siege for decades; life went on, but it was usually impossible for Athenians to travel overland in Greece outside their home region of Attica. »
• « But the immortality of an exceptional teacher is nothing more or less than the words that decades later are still repeated by her former disciples to their own students, their spouses, their children, their friends: "My teacher used to tell us..." »

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