Sentence examples for Formative decades from inspiring English sources

As a humanist, historian, and philosopher, he bore lifelong witness to his nation's formative decades.

During the formative decades of my life, I saw black people only in menial positions.

That mind-set is a sharp contrast to the attitude among trustees and administrators during SUNY's formative decades.

Dating from approximately 1860 to 1970, the collection represents an era that encompassed some of the most formative decades of the Law School's curriculum and reputation.

But after the garden's formative decades it became less clear how the recreation and the collection would comfortably coexist; in the early 1980s I recall an almost desultory atmosphere, with signs of a garden going to weed.

While British readers lack points of reference from earlier, formative decades in modern Chinese literary history, their capacity for understanding and appreciating more recent writing is always going to be shaky.

A working-class Yorkshire native, he spent a formative decade in Italy, virtually memorizing the streetscapes.

They created or starred in shows in the pivotal formative decade for that medium, the 1950s.

Yet bagpipe-playing, Burnley-supporting Campbell seems keener on spinning his other roots, not his formative decade in the Midlands.

I can't imagine a more formative decade than the one that takes us from age 22 to 32.

Even at one minute past midnight on 1 January 1990, we already knew that this would be a formative decade in Europe.