Sentence examples for in the preceding decade from inspiring English sources

In the preceding decade, about one in five races for seats in the State Legislature offered voters one candidate.

For all the current talk about a democratic crisis in euroland, the politicians themselves gave much of their own sovereignty away in the preceding decade.

Social media and new technology were crucial in shaping the revolutions of 2011, just as they shaped industry, finance and mass culture in the preceding decade.

He has an idea that in 2020 he'd like to programme a whole year of work made in the preceding decade.

In the 212 prison counties, the population rose 12percentt in the 90's, far more than rate of 1.5percentt in the preceding decade.

In the preceding decade, at least six people had been killed because the audience didn't think their rendition was up to snuff.

It was a slow year for Corman: he produced just one movie, which had no American theatrical release, true of most of the pictures he had been involved in over the preceding decade.

The Concordance proportion, calculated for twins only, was calculated as: The proportion of older mothers (35 years and over) giving birth to singletons and to multiples increased in the 2000s from the preceding decade in nearly all countries.

These were based on the precedent of an ambitious series of caves built in the preceding decades at Yungang.

The dirty southern drawl that became ubiquitous in the noughties spent much of the preceding decade as a distinctly local sound.

In the preceding decades, Balanchine had developed his sharp, modernist, "leotard ballet" style.