Sentence examples for beginning of the last decade from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of the last decade, the year 2000, America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion.

By the beginning of the last decade, a majority of births to unmarried women were to mothers who were living with the child's father.

At the beginning of the last decade, fewer than 20 drilling ships were capable of finding and developing deepwater oil; today there are well over a hundred.

Many suffered significant losses at the beginning of the last decade from specially formed armed police units that shot hundreds of suspected members on sight.

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes at the beginning of the last decade, extensive research related to the nanotubes in the fields of chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering has been found increasingly.

At the beginning of the last decade, the United States was believed to be burning quickly through its gas resources, and a flurry of construction began to build liquefied natural gas import terminals.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation oversaw 16,074 institutions.

The artefacts are characteristic of the beginning of the Late Palaeolithic (32 24 ka).

In the beginning of the 1970s, the concept of Kansei Engineering was introduced in Japan.

We moved just before the beginning of the summer holidays.

IT WAS meant to be the beginning of the end.