Sentence examples for A generation (roughly) from inspiring English sources

For a generation, roughly 1948 to the early 1970s, his Observer came to embody a national conversation about the future of Britain.

He believes every big change takes about a generation – roughly 20 years – and that change is coming.

First off, these are extremely blanketed statements to make about a generation of roughly 75 million people, recently surpassing the Baby Boomers as the United States largest generation.

If that media company could capture typical affiliate rates of 5 to 10percentt on the purchases it influenced, it could make at least $200 million a year from lead generation — roughly the same as it makes from banner ads under its current business model.

These books have an infectious quality which makes them talked about by a generation, at roughly the same time – water cooler coming-of-age books!

The number of such variable genetic positions that non-crossover events affect in a generation is roughly the same number as the number of newly generated random mutations to the DNA sequence in a generation.

Boomers give more total dollars to charity than any other generation; roughly $47 billion a year.

For Scottish people of my generation (roughly the same age as Prentice), it occupies a poignant place in space and time.

The most striking change in American society in the past generation — roughly since Ronald Reagan was elected President — has been the increase in the inequality of income and wealth.

It's surely no accident that this past generation, roughly 1980 to 2010, has seen more distinguished artists of all stripes accept peerages, knighthoods and other establishment baubles, from (Sir) William Golding (1988) to (Sir) Stephen Spender (1983), whose celebrated line "I think continually of those who were truly great" now has a rather hollow ring to it.

The American sociologist Robert Putnam argues that we are living in the aftermath of the civic generation (roughly from the end of the first world war through to the 1960s) which had a powerful ethic of service and the common good accompanied by high levels of trust, and we lament the loss.