Sentence examples for it a generation from inspiring English sources

Type 2 diabetes, the most widespread variety and the focus of this series, increasingly afflicts children, who rarely got it a generation ago.

Potentially, his victory could produce the biggest change in his party since Ronald Reagan redefined it a generation ago.It is the margin of Mr McCain's victory that is so compelling.

David Frum, the onetime Bush speechwriter, laments in his provocative new book "Comeback" that by 2008 his former boss "had led his party to the brink of disaster" and cost it "a generation of young Americans".

Joo Han, the son of Korean immigrants, runs a Manhattan produce store that looks much as it did when his parents opened it a generation ago, working endless hours to forge a new life, banana by banana, milk carton by milk carton.

And they like it that way, and they eventually "make it" a generation later when my grandmother grows up and marries a crafty former bootlegger who wins a jewelry business in a poker game, thereby launching the family into a successful, legitimate business that provides heartily for them over many decades hence.

Today, we face the choice exactly as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism or the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery.

It took a generation to get over it.

I think it's a generation thing, isn't it?

It's a generation gap isn't it.

It inspired a generation of designers to go it alone.

It doesn't work like that - it takes a generation".  .