The phrase "a decade would be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a time period of ten years in a hypothetical or conditional context.
Example: "If we look at the trends over the last ten years, a decade would be a sufficient timeframe to assess the changes in the industry."
Alternatives: "a ten-year period would be" or "a span of ten years would be".
Perhaps one a decade would be sufficient?
His defensive coaches, men he had known for a decade, would be fired.
Maduro said that some price controls, which have been in place for almost a decade, would be eased.
The revenue (almost $400 billion over a decade) would be recouped by getting rid of several deductions, including a distorting tax credit for domestic manufacturers.
Universal also announced on Wednesday that Ashley Burns, an EMI employee for more than a decade, would be Virgin's general manager.
Ayatollah Khamenei announced that Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, who had led the force for a decade, would be replaced by Brig.
But if one must find a recent starting point, a more appropriate decade would be the 1990s, when human rights organizations truly flourished and international criminal tribunals became reality.
Until the late 80s, it might be claimed, a Tamil-speaking person would be as unlikely to know Hindi as a Frenchman in that decade would be to know English.
Because of Congress's restrictions and the board's delayed start-up, however, the board's savings over the next decade would be a small fraction, $15.5 billion, of the law's nearly $500 billion in total Medicare reductions projected through 2019.
For this reason, carrying $2 trillion in debt is more than twice as harmful as carrying $1 trillion.Assuming, for now, no political constraints, then totting up these costs and benefits over, say, a couple of decades would be a good way to decide what a government's bottom line should be, and how it should be paid for.
I would recommend buying 2011 vintage Port, but these wines will require patience — several years at a minimum, although several decades would be better.
