Sentence examples for decades from inspiring English sources

"Over recent decades, technological change, globalization and an erosion of the institutions and practices that support shared prosperity in the U.S. have put the middle class under increasing stress.

Going back decades, such spending had never fallen more than 3 percent per capita in a recession.

Behind this summer's heat are greenhouse gases emitted decades ago.

Instead, a hefty chunk of the increase in consumption in recent decades has been the result of higher housing prices, the rising cost of medical care, more spending on education, and childcare.

Bernstein has lived here for four decades, rising from lowliest clerk to chief executive.

We're now just under two weeks away from one of the closest fought British elections in decades.

Often ostensibly secular and radically libertarian, for decades they have lobbied to turn public education – currently an $85bn federal operation – into an industrial complex.

He said he would initiate a vote to topple the coalition that has ruled for five decades.

Fast forward four decades, and our lives today are unrecognisable to our grandmothers.

"We might try and adopt a quick technological fix but one that holds the worst impacts for a few decades without much attention to what happens after that.

Runaway is among her best collections and displays all of Munro's mastery: the effortless shifts in time, sometimes across decades; the ability to convey an entire life in a few pages; the exploration of complex truths in uncomplicated language.