Sentence examples for first several decades from inspiring English sources

The amount of deep, slow-wave sleep declines over the first several decades of life.

The first several decades of the 8th century were marked by power struggles, political intrigue, attempted coups, and epidemics.

You don't have Rome even taking notice of most of these little house churches founded by Paul and other Christian missionaries for the first several decades.

For the first several decades of the census, white and black were the only categories; "black" was broken out into other definitions, but all were explicitly not-white.

In the first several decades of the Meiji period, there was an upheaval in patronage and in the status of the traditional Japanese artist.

The piece of Russian history--what happened to tens of millions of people in forced-labor camps in the first several decades of Soviet rule--was long, and also crucial.

Danielle Mancano, a spokesperson for Alfred Angelo, said that this year's bridal suits are the first in several decades, but not the first they've ever offered.

The BBC got there first – by several decades.

But he was a bingo guy first, and several decades ago, Wynn described Wayson's as "by far the largest bingo operation on Earth," according to biographer John L. Smith.

He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art that will resonate well into the new century.

The administration did not want to be the first in several decades not to have signed a significant arms control agreement with Moscow, said Mr. Graham, now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.