Sentence examples for decade in the preceding from inspiring English sources

With an increase of 0.13°C (± 0.03°C) per decade in the preceding 50 years the temperature rise is almost double to that of the last 100 years.

About 500 such drugs have gone to market since the law's passage in 1983, compared with fewer than 10 developed by the industry in the preceding decade.

Remarkably, the average economic growth rate of 31 of those 40 economies was 2.8 percentage points less in the decade after the $7,000 inflection point was reached than in the preceding decade.

The growth rate of wheat production in the region has been on the decline: it was 3.2percentt p.a. in the latest ten years (1989-99), down from 4.0percentt in the preceding decade and 5.1percentt in the one before.

In the preceding decade only 10 such drugs were approved.

Up to that point, the smart phone was spreading not much faster than personal computers had in the preceding decades, and more slowly than radio decades before.

These were based on the precedent of an ambitious series of caves built in the preceding decades at Yungang.

In the preceding decade, about one in five races for seats in the State Legislature offered voters one candidate.

In the preceding decade he had written pamphlets blaming the impending war on industrialists, literary figures, politicians and Jews.

As a result of these developments, framework metal-containing zeotype materials have been implemented in the preceding decade in new commercial, by-product-free green processes, which have improved sustainability in the chemical industry.

In the 212 prison counties, the population rose 12percentt in the 90's, far more than rate of 1.5percentt in the preceding decade.