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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mere decade" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the shortness or insignificance of a ten-year period in a particular context.
Example: "In the grand scheme of history, a mere decade can feel like just a blink of an eye."
Alternatives: "only a decade" or "just a decade".
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The Japanese atrocities in China were a mere decade away.
So after a mere decade, I am forced to update my whole rig.
A mere decade after his greatest television coup, Sullivan died an embittered man.
A mere decade or two later she will be able to laugh about the experience.
Ruth Padawer's cover story presents a problem that didn't exist a mere decade ago.
A mere decade later, their ranks had swelled to 13.4 million.
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It was a mere three decades.
A mere three decades in, the dream was effectively over.
From conflict to domesticity to conflict, then, in a mere six decades.
A mere eight decades later, the technology may at last come to fruition.
Now, a mere four decades later, the triangular four-and-a-half-acre park is almost ready for its first visitors.
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