Sentence examples for been five decades from inspiring English sources

It has been five decades since the Chieftains' came reeling out of Dublin.

BEIJING — It has been five decades since Mao Zedong decreed that the altruistic, loyal soldier Lei Feng should be a shining star in the Communist Party's constellation of propaganda heroes.

It has been five decades since television began to transform presidential races, but never before have the effects of cable television been so apparent in the early stages of a campaign.

"On the long view, in British political history since 1900, there have been five decades in which no government was voted out by the electorate, and only two decades saw more than one government defeated at the ballot box".

It was only five years old but it might just as well have been five decades old – I knew the album, with the big "NOW" on its cover, was all about celebrating what had been current at some point in the past, but that was somebody else's "now".

I recognized everyone, even though it had been five decades since most of us crossed paths.

It has been three decades since AIDS made its appearance.

It has been three decades since Business Week proclaimed "The Death of Equities" on its cover.

All things slow down to what their pace had been two decades earlier.

It has been two decades now that we have owned the cottage.

He's taken a slice of a success that has been three decades in the making?