Sentence examples for decades turns from inspiring English sources

What happens when the spouse you've leaned on and trusted for decades turns out to have a secret life?

In Japan, a compound of magnesium and boron that has been lying around on chemists' shelves for decades turns out to be a superconductor with practical potential.

Henry James's "The Madonna of the Future," for instance, in which Theobald, who has been working on his masterpiece for decades, turns out to have produced nothing (while his model aged), a blank canvas.

In "White Chocolate" (directed by David Schweizer, at the Century Center for the Performing Arts), William Hamilton, whose cartoons on these pages have been exposing the folly of the upper orders for decades, turns his appetite for caprice on Brandon and Deborah Beale, two Park Avenue social climbers.

The kind of abstract painting he has been doing for decades turns out to have anticipated much of the work being produced by young artists now, in which notions like high and low, organic and artificial, cerebral and ornamental blend together.

But he stretched his few fresh moves over many exhaustively productive decades, turning them into irritating tics.

Both are led by hard-charging entrepreneurs who have spent decades turning their companies into iconic, multibillion-dollar businesses.

By the early 1980s he was sober and had begun a prolific few decades, turning out novels, plays, poetry and journalism.

The Hell Creek formation around Glendive has over the last several decades turned up piles of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils.

This is only one of several international sports that have, over the past couple of decades, turned into giant money-making businesses.

Despite baseball's strong union, certain provisions that kept salaries rising for decades turned out to be norms, not hard and fast rules.