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The phrase "built over decades" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has been developed or constructed gradually over a long period of time.
Example: "The city’s infrastructure was built over decades, reflecting the evolution of urban planning."
Alternatives: "developed over many years" or "constructed over a long period".
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Such intimacy built over decades can establish trust in an unpredictable business climate.
Structures built over decades have fallen apart, and nothing – not even the Trump family – is left unscathed.
The "blueprint" for arts education that Mr. Kozinn praises is testimony to those collaborative relationships built over decades.
A failure to do so would be to jeopardise the tolerant society we have built over decades.
Shrinking the company to a more manageable size meant disassembling a disparate array of businesses built over decades by Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chief.
But Mr. Yunus's supporters are upset that his legacy, so carefully built over decades of serving the poor, has been so swiftly called into question.
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Trachoma's blinding damage builds over decades of repeated infections that begin in babies.
She honours the kinds of slow appreciation that build over decades, and after much travelling she returns, in the wonderful last chapters of her book, to write her own places best.
"Global warming builds over decades," he said.
Cendant has a stable and successful operating culture built over two decades.
Britain risked "trampling everything that has been built" over six decades of European integration, he said.
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