For sanitary reasons, all Singaporean street food was moved inside to these centralized open-air covered spaces decades ago.
(In that regard, it is akin to the problem that confronted designers of the space shuttle decades ago).
The compact space, for decades a candy store, has the cozy feel of a great-grandmother's parlor.
Yet songwriters, some famous, but most unknown, have flocked to Jack Hardy's cramped three-room space for decades.
Spy novels, blockbuster thrillers and television dramas have fed our expectations of this space for decades, even none of them were actually filmed there.
The gourmet market's owner put him in touch with her landlady, who said she had rented that space for decades to Mr. Casals, the factory owner.
The company, whose Atlas and Delta rockets have carried military and commercial satellites into space for decades, said it had no plans to cut any jobs.
While industrialisation and urbanisation occurred in the West over a period of centuries, populations elsewhere are moving from labour-intensive rural lifestyles to sedentary urban ones in the space of decades.
Its sternly prescriptive directions were countered in our time by the more descriptive "Webster's Dictionary of English Usage," by E. Ward Gilman, teased in this space for decades as "Dr. Roundheels".
A pop sphere where young women found – and struggled with – their agency and power, it was also a space where decades of cliched rock machismo were mercilessly yet affectionately deconstructed.
