Example sentences of "and a half decades " in BNC.
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1 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
2 | The role of the Queen is vastly different from that assumed for the monarch under the Tudors ; the hereditary element in the House of Lords has plummeted in importance in the deliberations of the House over the last two and a half decades ; and the House of Commons has become , although in relatively recent times , with the extension of the franchise , a popular assembly . |
3 | However , we shall also discuss the changes which have occurred over these three and a half decades . |
4 | It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades . |
5 | In addition to the Sadducees , Pharisees and Essenes , Judaism , in Jesus 's time , included a number of smaller , less well-known splinter-groups and sects , two of which have begun to figure increasingly in biblical scholarship during the last two and a half decades . |
6 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
7 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |