Example sentences of "for [adv] a decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 2 | After the Communist victory in 1949 , Chen followed Mao to Peking , where he worked quietly and largely anonymously for nearly a decade . |
| 3 | Yet the export drive predicted for nearly a decade has yet to happen . |
| 4 | Bukharin thus posed the problem facing the Bolsheviks in its starkest form , a problem that was to be hotly debated for nearly a decade to come . |
| 5 | Mark Little is Joe Mangle 's alter ego , the real-life actor who was doing comedy for nearly a decade before Neighbours . |
| 6 | FOR a country that has been run by soldiers for nearly a decade , Nigeria shows little enthusiasm for the elections due on June 12th . |
| 7 | A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch art , he taught at Columbia University for nearly a decade . |
| 8 | It set back this possibility for nearly a decade , until after the slump had sent unemployment to twice the ‘ unacceptable ’ level of 1923 and the pattern of politics had once again been changed . |
| 9 | This year 's El Niño is the most serious for nearly a decade . |
| 10 | For Denny has been on the local comedy circuit for nearly a decade and was a runner-up in the Scouseology Awards two years ago . |
| 11 | Yet Glasgow has been cultivating a townspace of such experiences for nearly a decade . |
| 12 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 13 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 14 | The images of Führer and Party , which for almost a decade after the ‘ seizure of power ’ had been largely separate and even diametrically opposed , were now starting to blur in public consciousness . |
| 15 | They punished Western support for the Israeli side with a massive price hike , and effectively maintained their control over world prices for almost a decade . |
| 16 | Edward Simpson , former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the DES , and ironically in charge of planning for almost a decade , has argued cogently the same case for more resources for primary schools as a result of the introduction of Local Management of Schools . |
| 17 | For almost a decade it has been providing courses in the art of leather carving , tooling , dyeing and stitching as well as offering craft kits for sale . |
| 18 | For almost a decade , the pair have kept their romance alive — he with private phone calls telling her he loved her and she with intimate presents like the pair of cuff-links engraved with the initials of Fred and Gladys , their pet names for each other . |
| 19 | Consequently , for almost a decade after that , Trevor was never actually seen driving a car in any film . |
| 20 | Gross and widespread human rights violations have afflicted Peru for almost a decade . |
| 21 | Faced by a similar difficulty , WordPerfect , a closely held software supplier based in Orem , Utah , that dominated the word-processor market in the MS-DOS realm for almost a decade , has made even bigger mistakes . |
| 22 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 23 | Instruction of research students in research methods and techniques has received government attention for almost a decade . |
| 24 | Your readers may or not be aware of the consternation currently being experienced in south-west Scotland following the installation of ‘ improved ’ technology at the Carlisle office of the Royal Mail whither our post has been taken for sorting for almost a decade . |
| 25 | For almost a decade he has led a series of protest demonstrations outside abortion clinics throughout England , running foul of the law on countless occasions . |
| 26 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |