Sentence examples for 5 decades old from inspiring English sources

"Half a World From the Gulf, a Spill Scourge 5 Decades Old" (front page, June 17), reporting that spills are a major problem in the Niger Delta, misses crucial context that explains why they happen.

Though clocks have been around since the 13th century, the history of the wristwatch is barely 13 decades old.

Much attention has been paid towards the accuracy of measured temperatures as this is missing in all previous studies which are mostly 7 8 decades old.

Some planes still in use are more than 3 decades old.

The reporter was so impressed by his knowledge about local history, that he was convinced that the retired farmer must be 16 decades old.

How about by making the case that blacks in general are lazy, angry, and engaged in a 3 decades old plot to train black children as militants against the US? It's those scary black terrorists again.

Now Bridget has reached the age of 51 (decades older than even Anne Elliot in Persuasion), perhaps she can step out of the Austen shadow at last and stand on her own two feet.

This research study has been designed to carry out bioremediation of PAH using indigenous microorganisms isolated from 3 decade old petrochemical waste disposal site.

And that's when her 3-decade-old foray into political activism came back to haunt her.

Now, a team that resurrected the 2-decade-old model has found that pressure waves set up within exceptionally large flows help boost their overall runout.

In just 14 months, between May 2012 and July 2013, for example, the inhabitants of a 2-decade-old village known as Site H cleared 16 hectares of forest to make new fields, bringing the total cultivated area to about 28 hectares.