Sentence examples for four decades yet from inspiring English sources

The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for four decades, yet sustained prevention efforts have barely begun.

We were hoping to ask the colonel how it is that he led his country for four decades, yet could never get himself promoted to general.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark .– It's hard to fathom anything that would overshadow a college football program's biggest game in more than four decades — yet that's exactly what has happened this week in Arkansas.

A photographer, Mr. Lyons has had a major impact on his field for close to four decades, yet very few people other than photographers and photography experts know his name, and not even many experts are familiar with much of his work.

My aunt has been in the United States for nearly three decades yet barely speaks English.

Blunt was a diligent, cool-headed traitor for two decades, yet this was the smaller part of his life.

This problem has existed unchecked for two decades, yet in a Chelsea park, Mr. Tolstich was ticketed by the police.

Income tax rates are at their lowest point in two decades, yet Gallup finds that about half of Americans still think they are too high.

The Venona project has been public for more than two decades, yet Budiansky's retelling of it, early in this book, whets a reader's appetite.

I have been teaching at a university for three decades, yet I can remember no dean ever coming into my classroom.

The European beef industry has one, too — anabolic steroids have been outlawed there for two decades, yet they are still used to promote growth in cattle.