Sentence examples for previous few decades from inspiring English sources

And it has seen more activity this year than in the previous few decades.

Wallace's basic contention was that men's tennis had, for the previous few decades, been moving in a linear direction.

The creative problem of the seventies was not the creative problem of the previous few decades — how to make new art within, or against, cultural constraints.

The South Bronx had lost, over the previous few decades, 600,000 manufacturing jobs, 750,000 residents and 43,000 housing units.

During the previous few decades, the opposite was true, with heat being transferred less efficiently into the oceans, causing more rapid warming at the surface.

On the international stage Germany showed what appeared to be a lack of resolve, drawing into question all that it had stood for over the previous few decades.

By far the best candidate for the progenitor comet was that seen in 1106 (Great Comet of 1106): Ikeya Seki's derived orbital period gave a previous perihelion almost exactly at the right time, and while the Great Comet of 1882's derived orbit implied a previous perihelion a few decades later, it would only require a small error in the orbital elements to bring it into agreement.

Hockey in the Garden had much more character a few decades back, before the previous revision when corporate boxes were stuck squat in the middle of real fans.

Her second novel, To the Bright Edge of the World, is again set in Alaska but in 1885, a few decades earlier than the previous book: this is an era of explorers and prospectors rather than hardscrabble homesteaders.

Previous attempts to pass massive transit improvements over the past few decades were voted down and the entire city is now paying the price.

HadGEM3 has been thoroughly tested and has more accurately reproduced temperature variations over the past few decades, suggesting it shows greater skill than was available from previous decadal forecast systems.