Sentence examples for A decade prior from inspiring English sources

For students aged 15 to 25, 3.4 percent dropped out between grades 10 and 12, down from 5percentt a decade prior and 6.7percentt in 1979.

(A decade prior, Kid 606 was doing the same to N.W.A., much more aggressively and creatively).

A decade prior to the formation of this group, there had been an oddly named "Status of Women" committee, which Prof. Christine Shoemaker (CEE) led and I eventually took over briefly as an untenured faculty member.

But for more than a decade prior, Israeli authorities actively enabled its rise.

The Chicago archdiocese points out that it had already developed a system for handling sexual abuse allegations a decade prior.

Both Tajikistan and Kunduz province had been polio-free for more than a decade prior to the 2010 outbreaks.

The release of Inception (2010) marked the realization of a script Nolan had begun a decade prior.

Most of the workers were first-generation immigrants from Italy, Greece, and Serbia; many had been hired, a decade prior, to replace workers who had gone on strike.

Only a half-a-decade prior, that figure was in the single digits.

In 2014, UN agencies in North Korea received less than $50 million in financing, down from $300 million a decade prior.

Only 8percentt of participants held a concentrated stock position at the end of 2014, compared with 18percentt a decade prior--more than a 50percentt improvement.