Sentence examples for barely two decades from inspiring English sources

The camera, barely two decades old, was the obvious tool.

It tracks the brief evolution of daguerreotypy in France, where the medium lasted barely two decades.

This "beginning" and its aftermath didn't last long – barely two decades.

The pope plainly sought to improve relations between the Vatican and Israel, which are barely two decades old.

After years of negotiations, the Falcons will get what they wanted: a new stadium to replace the Georgia Dome, which is barely two decades old.

These are admittedly ambitious goals for a region that is barely two decades into a difficult recovery from communism and tyranny.

It's barely four decades since Chinese farms were decollectivized, for instance, and less than two decades since Brazilian inflation was running at more than 40 percent a month.

Schwab had the most impressive site of the three, a full block overlooking the Hudson River, but it survived barely four decades.

Anti-Arab gags dominated comedy programmes on state radio, while astonishment was expressed in parliament and in the newspapers at the cheek of the "little sheikhs" to the south, their confected country barely four decades old, daring to address the heirs of Cyrus the Great.

When the Douglas DC-3 entered service with American Airlines, Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany, Jesse Owens was the fastest man in the world and the history of powered flight was barely three decades old. .

The minimum salary was $6,000 and had barely budged for two decades.