Sentence examples for decades of dormancy from inspiring English sources

Having somehow survived the death of half their line-up, decades of dormancy and Pete Townshend's encroaching deafness, they are still big enough to headline festivals this summer.

A tiny political party that advocates separation from Japan through peaceful means has been revived after decades of dormancy, though its candidates have fared poorly in recent elections.

After long decades of dormancy when logical positivism seemed to yield only negative conclusions in the philosophy of religion, a resurgence of interest in traditional theism occurred in mainstream philosophy of religion.

The Plunge, a near-vertical chute cut in 1994, was reopened this season after a decade of dormancy.

It is the Japanese, awakening from a decade of dormancy, who are the early adopters of the wireless Web.

Even for a company that built its reputation on heroic engineering through motorsport, kick-starting a proper Le Mans operation after well more than a decade of dormancy is no small feat.

Set during the Napoleonic wars, in an alternate version of the 19th century, Clarke's novel – written over a decade – presents a gothic vision of England where magic has re-emerged after centuries of dormancy.

Over not much more than a decade, England has not so quietly re-emerged as a "nation", after many centuries of dormancy (outside of sport, which is perhaps the best indicator of the ability of a nation to stick together).

The Friends of Williamsbridge Oval Park, created decades ago in Norwood to revitalize a 20-acre open space inside a former reservoir, recently reconstituted itself after years of dormancy.

Michael Gorra picked up a copy shortly after "The Transit of Venus" came out in 1980, and waited more than two decades, until the success of "The Great Fire" sent him back to it; Geoff Dyer writes of a similar period of dormancy, although the first time around, he made it as far as page 72: I read much more in my twenties than I do now, and had far more patience.

Metastatic relapse typically occurs many months to decades after surgery, thus we need a greater understanding of the processes that occur following tumour cell dissemination, including the phenomenon of dormancy.