Sentence examples for prior decades from inspiring English sources

What about the prior decades of colonial depredation?

In the weeks to come, we'll keep on offering treasures from prior decades.

Due to this new stage of exploration, our deadline for getting our acts together is now around 30 or later, and not earlier, like in prior decades.

In prior decades, rappers usually laid down two or three verses on a solo cut — if three strong ones, all the more proof of lyrical chops.

In contrast, French-speaking Quebecers who grew up in prior decades generally attended public schools attended almost universally by descendants of 18th-century French settlers.

Falling interest rates provided a tailwind to deficit reduction in all countries through the 1980s and 1990s as inflation phobias accumulated over prior decades seeped away.

In fact, American employment in China rose 77 percent in the prior decade, from 1998 to 2008.

Law enforcement didn't keep the Ottens family in the loop over the prior decade, Myra explained.

In 1996, the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan discovered that a copper trader named Yasuo Hamanaka had lost $2.6 billion over the prior decade.

From 2003 to 2012, the 40% of the population just below the median nearly doubled their share of the country's income gains, as compared to the prior decade.

Since deregulation passed, California has approved the nine plants now under construction, compared with none in the prior decade, and 22 more are in the regulatory pipeline.