Sentence examples for a decade first from inspiring English sources

Then, within barely a decade, first Expressionism then Cubism shattered every existing mold.

Striker Inglis Hernández, 28, worked with Ibarra for almost a decade: first as an amateur, then with the Xolas.

Before this we rented for about a decade, first in Park Slope, then Clinton Hill, then Fort Greene.

Bedard has known Howard for more than a decade, first as a scout who recommended that the Red Wings draft him.

For more than a decade, first at Time and then at The New Yorker, I had been writing Profiles — each, by definition, portraying an individual.

Giants guard Chris Snee has seen the whole man for more than a decade, first as his son-in-law-to-be, then as a Pro Bowl player.

This time, in the first finals meeting between the rivals in a decade, second-seeded Duke led by 18 points in the first half and never let the Tar Heels get close to a third straight tournament escape.

First, the characters are now in their 50s; second, they were married for 20 years and have been divorced for a decade; third, they have grown-up children; fourth, there's a lot of mutually satisfactory sex.

Sadly, after half-a-decade, Second Coming, their follow-up album on Geffen, was that in name only despite its minor hit "Love Spreads".

Mr. Cella has taken the job as the advertising world is reeling from the most severe slowdown in a decade -- first from the weakened economy and now also from the uncertainty since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

After a decade teaching first at Syracuse University and then at Cornell, she returned to to Yale as a professor in 2006.