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The phrase "a decade to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the time required for a project, idea, or technology to be fully realized or completed.
Example: "The new software took a decade to develop, but it has revolutionized the industry."
Alternatives: "ten years to create" or "a ten-year development period".
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However, new fields can take a decade to develop.
The note took more than a decade to develop.
And it can take more than a decade to develop a new marina.
Hannity's journey into Trump's political sanctum took a decade to develop.
Investors are shying away from an industry in which products take at least a decade to develop.
Yet vaccines usually take at least a decade to develop because so much of the effort is trial-and-error.
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Many thought a mechanical replacement would take only a decade to develop-in the age of the Apollo mission, pushing blood through a pump looked eminently doable.
Spain, for example, plans to invest about $140 billion over the next decade to develop a network of 6,200 miles of high-speed rail lines.
Last year, it said it would spend $8 billion over the next decade to develop a new business, BP Alternative Energy, focusing on forms of energy that emit little or no carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.
This prediction, in turn, relies on two assumptions: Energy demand will continue to grow at a predicted rate Low carbon energies will take a "many decades" to develop These assumptions have been accepted wisdom for many years, and with good reason.
Sometimes a drought takes decades to develop fully and they are very difficult to predict.
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