Sentence examples for spanned a decade from inspiring English sources
The woman's lies, which spanned a decade, allowed her to claim more than £375,000 in benefits, before she was arrested by police in 2013.
Investigators added that he had made millions in a scheme that spanned a decade and involved a global nuclear smuggling network.
The tussle over the Niyamgiri hills between Vedanta, an $11.4bn multinational, and the 8,000-strong 8,000-strongh community has spanneDongriaade.
In its heyday, which roughly spanned a decade starting in the mid-1950s, the films broke ground with their lush Technicolor, sexual frankness and unlikely mix of teasing exploitation and classically trained class.
(Sony Pictures Home Video, $19.94, not rated) LOOKIN' TO GET OUT From "Harold and Maude" in 1971 to "Being There" in 1979, Hal Ashby's hits spanned a decade and helped to define it.
The Trojan War, the monumental conflict that spanned a decade (doesn't seem so long at the moment, does it?) and has inspired artists for a few millenniums, essentially boils down to a lot of smack talked in a sandbox in "The Age of Iron," a labored epic adapted and directed by Brian Kulick for the Classic Stage Company from two separate plays from the early 17th century.
City and state officials say residents should prepare for a recovery that could span a decade.
Prosecutors accused the bank of reckless lending practices spanning a decade.
These days, graduates struggle to find a job, let alone map out a career structure spanning a decade or more.
Watkins's trajectory has been remarkable, as this composer portrait underlined in works spanning a decade up to 2014.
The narrative spans a decade and weaves personal histories through the depths of the Nigerian civil war.
