Sentence examples for nearly a generation from inspiring English sources

Democrats have not elected an attorney general in Virginia in nearly a generation, and several recent attorneys general have either run for or become governor.

Mr. Vacco won the general election, becoming New York's first Republican attorney general in nearly a generation.

Nearly a generation ago, the rapper was the general of a raging culture war; in the Bush era, he competed with the Dixie Chicks to be Public Enemy No. 1 among pop artists.

After all, Gimbels closed nearly a generation ago.

Nearly a generation of Latvians were sent to Siberia or killed.

And while both artists explore queer identity, they're separated by gender, geography and nearly a generation.

He said he was wounded while fighting the Soviets nearly a generation ago.

Like 1945 , 1997was a landslide that had been nearly a generation in the making.

We've known about the potentially devastating impact of global warming for nearly a generation.

After the failure of the Smolensk campaign, the government refrained from further military involvement with Poland for nearly a generation.

Nearly a generation later, many of the Maryknoll nuns who knew the women are retired and live at the center.