Sentence examples for In prior decades from inspiring English sources

In prior decades, rappers usually laid down two or three verses on a solo cut — if three strong ones, all the more proof of lyrical chops.

In prior decades, moving to an urban setting in Africa meant growing richer and having better access to institutional services.

Due to this new stage of exploration, our deadline for getting our acts together is now around 30 or later, and not earlier, like in prior decades.

In contrast, French-speaking Quebecers who grew up in prior decades generally attended public schools attended almost universally by descendants of 18th-century French settlers.

"We did not have the GPS technology on collars to document this type of swimming behavior in polar bears in prior decades," explains Karen Oakley, of the USGS Alaska Science Center.

In the 11 years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, 112 more E.O.D. techs have died – a pace exceeding the rate at which they were killed in prior decades.

In 2005, a study of 56 countries reported rapid growth in influenza vaccination in the prior decade, most notable in nations outside of North America and Western Europe [ 17].

In fact, American employment in China rose 77 percent in the prior decade, from 1998 to 2008.

For Mexico, NAFTA helped to consolidate the neo-liberal, anti-development economic policies that had already been implemented in the prior decade, enshrining them in an international treaty.

Since deregulation passed, California has approved the nine plants now under construction, compared with none in the prior decade, and 22 more are in the regulatory pipeline.

The Times gave a figure of 198 train deaths in the prior decade, mostly of schoolchildren, mostly in the dark winter months.