Sentence examples for In preceding decades from inspiring English sources
The phrase "In preceding decades" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the decades that came before the current one, often in discussions about historical trends or changes over time.
Example: "In preceding decades, the approach to education has evolved significantly, adapting to new technologies and societal needs."
Alternatives: "In previous decades" or "In earlier decades".
Since 2008, global food prices have been consistently higher than in preceding decades, despite wild fluctuations.
As it was his private domain, a state within the state, he took into it predominantly northern and commercial territories that had enjoyed a special prosperity in preceding decades.
Does the industry recognize that its role will never be what it was in preceding decades?
There is qualitative agreement with the seasonal variations of 558 nm emission obtained in preceding decades at other mid-latitude stations, as well as with model approximations.
On this issue, the Bible was the near-universal authority across the country, much of which had been won over to evangelical Protestantism in preceding decades.
In contrast to the chaotic development of ironclad warships in preceding decades, the 1890s saw navies worldwide start to build battleships to a common design as dozens of ships essentially followed the design of the British.
Similarly damaging was the attitude among many British intellectuals that the crisis was a predictable and not-unwelcome corrective to high birth rates in the preceding decades and perceived flaws, in their opinion, in the Irish national character.
More generally, although lead levels in the environment have fallen dramatically in the past two decades, many older adults have endured protracted exposures to lead in the preceding decades and have accumulated lead in their skeletons.
Although pop-punk was not invented in the late nineteen-nineties — in the preceding decades, bands like Bad Religion, Agent Orange, Social Distortion, Hüsker Dü, Green Day, and the Descendents did the strange work of injecting either melody or jocularity, or both, into punk's staunchness — few musical genres now feel as emblematic of that era.
Economic growth has been markedly slower in the neoliberal era (since 1980 in Britain and the US) than it was in the preceding decades; but not for the very rich.
These were based on the precedent of an ambitious series of caves built in the preceding decades at Yungang.
