Sentence examples for beginning of a decade from inspiring English sources

The Senate operates on a "2-4-4" cycle; senarers arelecteded to four-year terms, except at the beginning of a decade, when they serve a two-year term.

The launch in 1990 of the Human Genome Project, which aimed to map the complete sequence of human DNA, came at the beginning of a decade that would mark the high point of optimism about how much our genes could tell us.

I call it "The Datafication of HR" – the beginning of a decade long transition toward data-driven people decisions.

This journey up the Rhine marks the beginning of a decade when Erasmus was the most famous writer in Europe, a clear example of the new power of the press, since his writings, published by the leading firms of the Netherlands, France, and now Basel, and reprinted again and again by lesser presses from Britain to Poland, were the foundation of his fame.

And I truly believe that if that progress continues, and the ideas I have discussed today are adopted, that we stand at the beginning of a decade of investment, and the dawn of a global society.

A trip to a former Nazi labor camp in Poland marked the beginning of a decade-long project exploring Eastern European Jewry and family history.

The ground forces still would be slightly larger than they were before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the beginning of a decade-long military buildup).

Kantor's parents, who came from nearby villages, survived the Holocaust but died in her youth; her trip to Płaszów marked the beginning of a decade-long project exploring Eastern European Jewry and her own family history.

The parish at which he presides was founded in 1983, the beginning of a decade-long boom in the area's Vietnamese population, as immigrants who had been settled in other parts of the nation began to move here.

It was the beginning of nearly a decade of precipitous hardship for many Cubans, as the economy shrank to almost nothing.

With the Jackson 5 as role models, the brothers began to broaden their musical range and had a hit in 1971 with "One Bad Apple (Don't Spoil the Whole Bunch)," the beginning of about a decade in the spotlight.