Sentence examples for given decades from inspiring English sources

Given decades of repression, a real political-party spectrum has yet to emerge.

It had been given decades earlier to the cabin's owners, who sought out Professor Clark after hearing about her search.

While historians debate the reliability of first-person accounts given decades after the event, advocates argue that they give voice to ordinary people's experiences of historic times.

That principle has been Supreme Court law for a generation and should not be made unjustly narrow — particularly given decades of studies showing that misidentification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions across the country.

This school will wonder about what measures should be taken against a priest who committed a serious offense long ago but who has repented, reformed and given decades of irreproachable service.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's decision to eliminate about a fifth of the jobs in the Department of Education's central administration has been understandably painful for longtime employees, many of whom have given decades of valuable service.

And, of course, whether we should be listening to Barbra Streisand in any given decade.

Any given decade can make a return to fashion in a number of guises.

Apart from in the 2000s (as we discuss here) the poorest countries had consistently lower per-capita income growth over a given decade than did rich countries.

Next, he examined mortality figures from the decades on either side of the war — the 1850s and 1870s — so that he could get an idea of the "normal" ratio of male to female deaths for a given decade.

The main theme in any retirement plan overhaul is to diversify as much as possible in passive funds and switch out of actively managed funds, because fewer than 5 percent of them even equal their benchmark in any given decade.