Sentence examples for decades can be attributed from inspiring English sources

Much of the city's crumbling infrastructure and low-performing schools over the last few decades can be attributed to a fleeing tax base.

Much of the advancement in mouse models for cancer during the past 2 decades can be attributed to our increasing capacity to specifically modify the mouse germ line.

Increasing frequency of severe floods on the middle and lower Changjiang (Yangtze) River during the past few decades can be attributed to both abnormal monsoon rainfall and landscape changes that include extensive deforestation affecting river sedimentation, and shrinking lakes and levee construction that reduced the areas available for floodwater storage.

The prevalence of obesity in recent decades can be attributed largely to changed food habits and increased sedentary life style.

ACL surgery (and the related research) is a classic example of integration between biomechanics and biology: the progress made in recent decades can be attributed to the big steps forward in the knowledge of both the mechanical and biological properties of ACL and its healing process [ 4– 8].

This rise is a result of the interest in typological work in the preceding decade and can be attributed to the publication of the notable contributions on lexicogrammatical profiles in Caffarel et al. (2004), which includes descriptions of nine individual languages and a chapter on a cross-linguistic survey of typological motifs and generalisations (Matthiessen 2004).

But just as athletes don't find themselves in the zone by magic, Merton insists that whatever comic gift he may have can be attributed to decades of study of comedy as a discipline.

Case in point: the doctor bag, a structured handheld whose favoring in fashion has waxed and waned for decades, but whose return for fall can be attributed to the way the models carried theirs — tucked securely under the crooks of their arms — at Lanvin, Céline, Proenza Schouler and Derek Lam.

The current state of health and health services in Kurdistan can be attributed to decades of successive conflict: the Iraq-Iran war (1980-88), two Gulf wars (1990 and 2003, respectively), a Kurdish civil war (1994-98) and 13 years of US sanctions (1990-03).

The company became a market leader, thriving over three decades in business and three main factors can be attributed for their success.

The deterioration can be attributed to the government's decision decades ago to gut most of the public services that supported them.