Sentence examples for sat for a decade from inspiring English sources

Of those appointed to that first court, only one sat for a decade; the others served for nine years or less.

He has lived in New York since retiring in 1967 from the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, where he sat for a decade.

But he hasnt forgotten his adopted state or the college that gave him his start: Hays and his wife recently gave $2 million to Texas Christian University, on whose board he has sat for a decade, to build a theater.

For 30 years, first as a science correspondent in Washington and New York, and later as the director of a fellowship programme at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT) in Cambridge, Mr McElheny pursued the company's founding genius, Edwin Land, getting ever closer until finally he sat for over a decade across the street from his elusive quarry.

Sitting for Seffner a decade later, His presumably selected embryo α because it features in Ziegler's famous series.

Eventually, the dollhouse ended up in a corner of the attic, where it sat undisturbed for a decade or so.

The shift in Mr. Eastwood's ambition is widely seen as beginning with "Unforgiven," from a script by David Webb Peoples that he bought in the early 80's but sat on for a decade.

Meanwhile, having sat closed for a decade, completely derelict, one of the U.K.'s first amusement parks — the circa-1870 Dreopened — reopened last summer with its 1920 roller coaster restored, plus a disco-style roller rink.

The portrait was of Martin T. Manton, who sat for two decades on the prestigious federal appeals court for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, and who was almost appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

Also this week, restoration was completed on a statue that sat for decades at Broadway and West Sunnyside Lane.

The police in Bangor, Me., received a call this month: a woman found a live hand grenade in a moving box, where it had probably sat for decades.