Sentence examples for decades of argument from inspiring English sources

It took three decades of argument and public inquiries before a single runway at Stansted got the go-ahead.

Re "Op-Ed at 40: Four Decades of Argument and Illustration" (special section, Sept. 26): What a gift!

Again and again around Meriden – even after an interminable campaign and decades of argument before that – people said they thought no one had ever presented the pros and cons of membership fairly and comprehensibly.

The Church formally adopted legislation last November to allow women bishops, following decades of argument over women's ordination.

Decades of arguments and lawsuits ensued.

And last year, after nearly two decades of arguments, Mr. Zamansky persuaded the school to add a yearlong computer science requirement for the school's approximately 800 sophomores.

A new system for registering patents across the EU has been launched after decades of arguments and negotiations.

We do believe that even after decades of arguments about the value of transdisciplinary research, science is still very much fragmented.

He was an MP himself at 25, arriving at Westminster just as Labour embarked on a decade of argument between Bevanites and Gaitskellites, a sequel to the bitter debates of the 1930s and a prequel to the later divisions in which he was such a pivotal figure.

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There has been a decade of arguments – often behind closed doors – about just how big the risk to human health the disease in cattle poses.