Example sentences of "[verb] the last decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 2 | What I have found using these criteria will be the subject of the next two chapters , of which the chick is the sole and proud subject , but the rest of this chapter will be concerned , not with my own experiments , but those of the other hunters for god 's organism whose work has dominated the last decade . |
| 3 | On the completion of the circle , Moran again had to recite the Last Decade . |
| 4 | From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life . |
| 5 | Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market . |
| 6 | Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine , Starr has rediscovered his musical roots . |
| 7 | We are now entering the last decade of our century and of our millennium , which has been declared a ‘ Decade of Evangelism ’ . |