A decade of things we ought to have done that we did not do, and things that we did that we ought not to have done.
Louis van Gaal presses all the right buttons for Manchester United now that they have joined the supercoach circus after decades of doing things their own way.
A firm can, for example, invite its employees to access PKC online and then share the results with their doctors.And after decades of toil, things could finally be going Dr Weed's way.
And it is also, you can't help feeling, a bit of wisdom that has enabled Murakami himself to survive and, maybe, deepen as a writer over the two and a half decades of taking things in that this odd, bracing sampler represents.
We're talking multiple decades of building things.
It's not to say that they wouldn't have had four decades of interesting things to share had they been of the same race or ethnicity, but I tend to think that their coming from different cultures helps the quality and longevity of their relationship.
For the last two decades the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a subject of growing global interest.
Telecoms and cloud service providers are gearing up for two of the largest functional changes in decades: The Internet of Things (IoT) which is happening now and 5G which is on the horizon.
DEBORAH TREISMAN: More likely, a once-a-decade kind of thing.
Then, in 2009 after a decade of performing, things started to change.
