Sentence examples for decade when he began from inspiring English sources

But his career stalled towards the end of the decade when he began to suffer from dartitis, a condition similar to the yips in golf: at the critical moment, the player is unable to release the dart and follow through.

Eyes downcast, head bowed, hands clasped and legs crossed; Eddie, an introverted wheelchair user, had been in a dementia care home for a decade when he began sessions with arts charity Age Exchange.

Educated at Oxford and Harvard, Julius briefly represented Leon Black's Apollo Advisors in Europe during the early 1990s, making a name for himself only at the end of the decade when he began tackling modest-size Italian bankruptcies.

Educated at Oxford and Harvard, Julius briefly and unspectacularly represented Leon Black's Apollo in Europe during the early 1990s, making a name for himself only at the end of the decade when he began as an independent tacklingmodest-size Italian bankruptcies.

Geragos's first splash into mainstream news came more than a decade later, when he began representing a woman at the center of a presidential scandal then dominating national headlines.

Richardson was obsessed with the artist as a teenager and a decade later, when he began restoring a chateau in Provence in the 1950s with the collector Douglas Cooper, he became a member of Picasso's inner circle.

It was only a decade later, when he began work on a report documenting the killings, that Coltart realised that as early as August 1980 Mugabe had travelled to North Korea and sought Kim Il-sung's help in developing a unit capable of crushing internal dissent.

Decades ago, when he began his career in the securities fraud unit of the Southern District of New York, prosecutors placed greater accountability on individual executives at companies, he recalled.

With a talent for self-promotion, he came to say he had "discovered" South Beach, although it was already a decade in the making when he began investing in it.

With the encouragement of other band members, he became a fluent interpreter and composer of Hawaiian music, producing a number of classics, including "Wahine 'Ilikea," "Koke'e" and "Ka 'Opae". He remained with the group for two decades, until the early 1990s, when he began to focus on a solo career.

There was a brief flicker of activity at the end of the last decade, when he began performing live again, appearing for a few songs during shows by bands featuring various permutations of the old Family Stone lineup, with decidedly mixed results.