Sentence examples for by almost a decade from inspiring English sources
The F.C.C. anticipated the Chinese response by almost a decade.
Hubble cost several billion dollars more than initially planned, and its launch was delayed by almost a decade.
There are three surviving Marx children, all girls, and Tussy is the youngest by almost a decade.
Cynthia Ozick has become the oldest writer to compete for the Orange Prize for Fiction, beating the previous record by almost a decade.
This was followed by almost a decade of fighting, in which Silla expelled the T'ang forces and established a unified kingdom in the Korean peninsula.
The charges relate to the conflict in the western Darfur region of Sudan, where an estimated 300,000 people have died and more than two million have been uprooted by almost a decade of fighting between the government and rebels.
Many began arriving to seek their fortunes in Nigeria at the turn of the 19th century; by 1880, almost a decade before Brazil abolished slavery, their numbers had swelled to almost one in 10 of Lagos' approximately 40,000 inhabitants.
Suggested by HeyBulldog Almost a decade before Kanye stormed the stage on Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music awards (VMAs), Rage Against the Machine's Tim Commerford launched an invasion on Limp Bizkit.
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King For almost a decade, Stephen King fans have been yearning to see this epic series on the big screen, and they'll finally get their wish with this adaptation, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.
By now, however, almost a decade of excess, compounded by matrimonial discord and fatherhood, was beginning to take its toll on Shepard, and, after failing to turn up for the opening night of Cowboy Mouth, he fled with his family to London: "I was into a lot of drugs," he told Time Out shortly after his arrival.
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, a novel of gay love, inspired by baseball, was almost a decade in the writing, the product of endless drafts and repeated disappointment.
