Sentence examples for scarcely three decades from inspiring English sources
The very last Armenian survivors of the 1915 genocide – in which a million and a half Christians were slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks – are dying, and Armenians are now facing the same fearful dilemma that Jews around the world will confront in scarcely three decades' time: how to keep the memory of their holocausts alive when the last living witnesses of Ottoman and Nazi evil are dead?
Scarcely two decades after the Puritans' bitterly resented bid to ban idolatrous rites, the festival had roared back into fashion.
When Lt. William Broughton visited in 1792, there were an estimated 2,000 Indians on the island; scarcely four decades later, decimated by smallpox, syphilis, measles, tuberculosis and ague, the population had vanished, as Wyeth put it, "to a man".
This subtext, though, is scarcely present in the play because Weigh is adapting a text set three decades earlier, in another culture.
And over three decades that core premise -- and the basic delivery -- scarcely changed.
Median incomes have scarcely risen in two decades, he notes.
Flash-forward three decades.
Three decades of aging potential?
Three decades later, 42% were.
It has spanned three decades.
