Sentence examples similar to a decade smaller from inspiring English sources

The excuses from the government that every year, for over a decade, small business contracts wind up in the hands of some of the nation's largest defense contractors as a result of "miscoding, computer glitches, anomalies and simple human error" are starting to wear thin and are no longer believable or sustainable.

For more than a decade, small noncoding RNAs have become increasingly central to the study of tumor biology.

But its proposed defense cuts were surprisingly modest, only $816 billion over a decade -- smaller, it appears, than what Simpson-Bowles called for or even what Tom Coburn suggested.

Christopher Barbieri, director of the Asian division of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, has been working for more than a decade with smaller U.S. businesses looking to tap into China’s growth.

A public works project here in Los Angeles, as outlined in LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's 30/10 plan to build three decades' worth of mass transit projects in a decade, and smaller projects in the 80 other cities across the country looking to expand their light rail, subway, and bus systems, is an excellent start.

Eliminating the fund would save roughly $16 billion over the course of a decade, a small amount in the context of a trillion-dollar health care reform.

The Bloomberg administration has advocated for nearly a decade for small schools to replace larger, failing high schools, a strategy that was initially supported by the teachers' union.

For more than a decade, the small town 80 miles south of Madrid has celebrated its local fiesta with a bullfight.

For nearly a decade, a small-town New York police detective was sure he knew who had killed Yolina Arcenia Camacho, a hotel chambermaid, in a fit of rage in front of three witnesses.

For more than a decade, a small group of businessmen contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of their county commissioners in Luzerne County, a waning coal center in eastern Pennsylvania.

Following a decade of small parts as an actor on the stage and US television, he initially made a name for himself as a screenwriter, penning the short story Charade, later expanded into a full-blown screenplay in collaboration with his friend Peter Stone.