Sentence examples for decades preceding from inspiring English sources

In the decades preceding World War I, the West was on a roll.

Like Lanark, it was published in the early 1980s but was written over the three decades preceding.

In the decades preceding the late 1990s, Labour dominated Scottish politics, both in local government and at Westminster.

In the two decades preceding the Great Recession, the American prison population nearly tripled, according to the Pew Center on the States.

In the decades preceding the American Civil War, increasing numbers of discontented slaves escaped to the North or to Canada via the Underground Railroad network of antislavery advocates.

Rwanda in the several decades preceding the 1994 genocide was considered a star economic performer by the World Bank and other major donors.

What events in history were occurring in the decade preceding and following the leader's birth?

The aforementioned trends exemplify the most salient fact about Broadway musicals in the first decade of the 21st century (and the decade preceding it).

Florian, the Rhode Island architect, the memorial reproduces a style of architecture associated with the World War II period and the decade preceding it.

In her recent speech to the Social Market Foundation, the secretary of state said: "The last ten years have seen more change for the BBC than in any decade preceding.

The current tax rates, especially when rarely paid, are no more a hindrance to investment than they were during the boom decade preceding the downturn.