The phrase "a decade before of" is not correct in English and should not be used.
The correct expression would typically be "a decade before" or "a decade prior to."
Example: "The event took place a decade before the new law was enacted."
Alternatives: "ten years earlier" or "a decade prior."
Employees felt the impact of this a decade before, as companies anticipated the drop in profits.
Nearly a decade before, in the 2003-2004 survey, 83percentt of teachers reported identifying as white.
Although the Bailey mine had begun operating a decade before, most of the surrounding valleys were still open land.
The booming late 1990's appear to have left the middle class in the New York region and California no better off than it was a decade before, an analysis of Census Bureau data suggests.
The FLQ had been known for almost a decade before, carrying out hundreds of bombings, but the kidnappings propelled the group to heightened visibility.
It has left Ontario with traffic levels around four million, about what they were in the mid-1980s, a decade before construction of two modern terminals that were supposed to make this airport a linchpin of the region's economic growth.
And it will be more than a decade before any of them are in a position to apply for an NIH investigator grant.
But it's worth noting that Roland Caillaux, a lesser known actor and artist, was creating similar work in Paris a decade before Tom of Finland found success.
She believes it could be at least a decade before much of a dent could be made in the subcontinent's OEH problems and that to truly meet its challenge, India would need dozens more such programs.
Criminologists studying recidivism have found that felons usually have to stay out of trouble for about a decade before their risk of committing a crime equals that of people with no records.
