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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a decade of abuses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of ten years characterized by mistreatment or wrongdoing.
Example: "The report highlighted a decade of abuses within the organization, calling for immediate reforms."
Alternatives: "ten years of mistreatment" or "a ten-year history of violations."
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Yet federal prosecutors on Thursday portrayed the "rampant insider trading" at SAC as having no equal, pointing to more than a decade of abuses that took place while managers turned a blind eye.
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Her skin is pocked by needle marks, scored by more than a decade of abuse.
So far one victim, known by the pseudonym Nick, has come forward to tell of a decade of abuse he suffered at the hands of people including senior politicians and members of Britain's establishment, and of three homicides.
Alan Johnson is to criticise the police for not doing more to help a mother who killed herself and her disabled daughter following a decade of abuse by out-of-control neighbours.
After a decade of abuse from the weather and damage from the sun, more than 11,000 of the 12,000 signs bearing road names over intersections are being replaced by the State Department of Transportation.
It is that last category that should cover people like the woman from Guatemala, Rodi Alvarado Peña, who fled to this country after a decade of abuse and whose case is now before the attorney general.
They are polite to the opposition and, despite a decade of vicious abuse, expect Republicans to be polite to them.
After a decade of substance abuse and serial infidelity, the Eagles had descended into a complex but bitter intra-band rivalry measured out in the amount of drugs ingested and groupies procured, and brought to a head by niggling personal habits.
I've survived more than a decade of horrific abuse as a child.
Not coincidentally, barely a year later, in 1999, Shawn Fanning launched Napster, marking the beginning of online piracy and over a decade of artist abuse.
But the post-election violence capped more than a decade of human rights abuses in Côte d'Ivoire, beginning with the 2000 election violence and the 2002-2003 armed conflict and its aftermath.
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