Sentence examples for a mere three decades from inspiring English sources

It was a mere three decades.

A mere three decades in, the dream was effectively over.

Or so it seems, looking back on a mere three decades or so of revolutionary dance made in the heyday of that new art by women and men with larger-than-life personalities.

A mere eight decades later, the technology may at last come to fruition.

In a mere six decades we have steadily progressed from the dread of "silent spring" to the prospect of a lonely earth.

Korea's fabled rise from one of the world's poorest nations to one of the richest in a mere five decades is well known.

Now, a mere four decades later, the triangular four-and-a-half-acre park is almost ready for its first visitors.

Workers on the site report a shortage of building materials, but they expect the first patients before the year is out, a mere two decades late.

Acting with its usual celerity, the Admiralty instituted the practice of issuing lime juice rations to sailors a mere two decades later, in 1795.

The decline of the studio system, the rise of television-all the forces that were eating away at the old Hollywood-would enable Wasserman, in a mere two decades, to build an empire of his own.

This year the city's second Metro line opened – a mere two decades after the launch of the first – connecting central Warsaw with the neighbourhoods on the east side of the Vistula river, such as Praga.