Sentence examples for held for decades from inspiring English sources

Research done before the show altered assumptions held for decades.

Some have been held for decades without phone calls, access to rehabilitation programs or time outdoors.

That compact has largely held for decades, keeping the world far safer and more secure.

Several ministries — including oil and energy — were shaken up, with people removed from jobs they had held for decades.

Mr. Boehner's visit was welcomed by local Republicans, worried about losing a seat that their party has held for decades.

(In an upset last year, the Democrats lost the Senate seat held for decades by Edward M. Kennedy).

It is believed to be the first time a vote on such an appointment has been held for decades.

Bonfire parties known as bubbas have been held for decades at each semester's end in cow pastures around campus.

Their numbers fell from around 18,000 in 2002 to 8,000, and they were driven from areas in central Colombia that they had held for decades.

Mr. Brown, a Republican, made history in January by snaring the seat held for decades by Edward M. Kennedy, wiping out the Democrats' supermajority.

Reversing a trend that had held for decades, more Dominicans left New York City than arrived since 2000, a new census analysis found.