Sentence examples for about two decades old from inspiring English sources

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This exposure is about two decades old, said Andreas Jacobs, who owns Gestüt Fährhof, one of Germany's leading stud farms.

The age of some of the trash could be counted not in months but in years: Soda cans bleached by the sun appeared to be about two decades old.

Though the word twerk may seem all too of the moment, Katherine Connor Martin, an editor at the Oxford Dictionaries site, told The A.P. that this verb was probably about two decades old.

At that time, the American community was only about two decades old, and its members were being asked to travel to some of the most remote corners of the earth.

The New York Times reported, "the word is getting some acknowledgment from one of the English language's most august reference volumes," and noted that the addition isn't too egregious because twerk is not a fad, but is actually "about two decades old".

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At 37, she is about two decades older than most of her competitors.

He may be about two decades older, but he's a foot taller and appears to have Old Man Strength.

This story is about three decades old.

One of the more interesting crime dramas currently on either side of the Atlantic started with a concept that was only about three decades old.

"Those who support these policies are imposing their vision on everyone else".Opposition to bussing on these grounds is only about five decades old, and I don't particularly want to get into Nixon-era debates on the subject.

The now conventional method for considering the evolution of virulence is about three decades old (Anderson and May 1979, 1982).

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