Sentence examples for decade previously from inspiring English sources

But the majority of those successes had been achieved more than a decade previously.

The 2010 census found 17% fewer blacks in Chicago than a decade previously.

In order to secure a fair wind to Asia Minor a decade previously, he had made a human sacrifice of his young daughter, Iphigenia.

The ONS data showed five of the top boys' names were also in the top 10 a decade previously in 2004 – Oliver, Jack, Thomas, James and William.

Introduced in the Charities Act 2006 and mooted for more than a decade previously, some charities were finally able to apply from December 2012.

But Timothy, compelled to return to a village he'd visited a decade previously, is, like Ethan, harbouring nothing more otherworldly than grief and loss.

The steady whistling noise had also been heard by residents several decades previously.

However, over recent decades, previously industrial – and subsequently derelict – waterfront spaces have been redeveloped into urban spaces which are emblematic of postindustrial urbanism.

After several months of intense searching, the team eventually found an existing tank terminal, located in the city of Turku, that Shell had abandoned decades previously.

Scaly like a crocodile, squat and bulky like a rhinoceros, its menacing grin bore witness to just how well, as Buckland had observed decades previously, its teeth and jaws were "adapted to effect the work of death most speedily".

Occasionally I will reread a book in exactly the same copy as I first did decades previously: and there, in, say, a student text of a Flaubert novel, I will find all those annotations which now, initially, embarrass.