Sentence examples for during five decades from inspiring English sources

Universities were starved of resources and gutted of independent thinking during five decades of military rule.

Mr. Potamkin, known as Pat, and his wife, Vivian, built their collection during five decades or so.

Hatred between Muslims and Buddhists that was kept in check during five decades of military rule has been virtually unrestrained in recent months.

But the severity of the violence suggests that deeply held hatred in the city, buried during five decades of military rule, is surfacing with the country's newfound democratic freedoms.

The news media in Myanmar were highly censored and restricted during five decades of military rule, but the government has lifted many of those restrictions since President Thein Sein came to power nearly two years ago.

Despite a long career in public service during five decades spent in Washington, Mr. Adams is best known for his confrontations with Senator McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who galvanized the nation in 1953 with hearings to root out supposed Communists in the armed forces.

DURING three decades of marketing employee benefit plans in Southern California, Nancy Weil Brown slowly but steadily built up her nest egg.

DURING two decades of civil war and two years of ceasefire, Sri Lankan politics have been a study in contrasts.

Many times during seven decades of economics teaching and textbook creation I have been wrong.

The House speaker, John A. Boehner, has lived through many political storms during two decades in Congress.

Egyptian politicians of all stripes cut their teeth during six decades of veiled dictatorship.