Sentence examples for great decades from inspiring English sources

Still, one could argue that the great decades of serious 19th-century Italian opera are framed by Rossini's 1816 version and Verdi's 1887 version of "Otello".

The series invites the singers to explore American repertory, and Ms. Blythe will do so in a program that includes the New York premiere of "Vignettes: Ellis Island," a song cycle by Alan Smith and popular American songs from the great decades of European immigration to the United States.

At their very core, games that were great decades ago are often still good today.

That was such a great decade!

The 60s was not a great decade for American cinema.

That was also the great decade of Callas, who was under exclusive contract to EMI.

She is having a great decade, what with the success of the Nanny McPhee franchise, and plaudits for Mr Banks.

Iraq, the banking and Wall Street crash, New Orleans, the environment... it's not been a great decade Stateside.

"Fences" is part of Wilson's great decade-by-decade cycle of the African-American experience in the 20th century, largely set (as "Fences" is) in the Hill District of Pittsburgh.

After the eighteen-sixties, Collins's great decade, there were many more novels and plays, produced heroically in the face of great physical discomfort and near-blindness.

The Seventies were a great decade for apocalyptic enthusiasms, and none was more potent than the fear that human population growth had outstripped the earth's carrying capacity.