Example sentences of "for [prep] [adv] a decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future of Kedleston was uncertain for at least a decade . |
| 2 | For at least a decade after 1906 relations between the police and headmen were often poor . |
| 3 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 4 | Despite having coached Northerns so well in tandem with Williams in the late Eighties , Eugene Van Wyk was refused and Ian Kirkpatrick , who has not coached at provincial level for at least a decade , has been named . |
| 5 | If the GDR , with a 1982 debt service ratio of 63 per cent faces an uphill struggle , Poland , with a debt service ratio of 191 per cent has put herself beyond the point of return as an OECD trading partner for at least a decade . |
| 6 | In other words , the bulk of its plutonium is likely to remain stashed in potentially vulnerable stockpiles for at least a decade . |
| 7 | Both before the adoption of the principle in the 1945 Family Allowance Act and for at least a decade after its implementation , some women 's organisations were either positively hostile or dis-tinctly lukewarm in their attitudes . |
| 8 | With current failure rates of around 1% a year a new design that was a 30% improvement over an older one ( a truly radical improvement ) would require a trial of many thousands of patients followed up for at least a decade before a significant difference could be shown . |
| 9 | ‘ He left SIS back in sixty-two but kept some contact with the service for at least a decade afterwards . ’ |
| 10 | To Western anti-apartheid campaigners the apple has been saying , ‘ Damn the racist apartheid system , boycott South African fruit , ’ for at least a decade . |