Sentence examples for spate of years from inspiring English sources

There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another.

Some climate skeptics have claimed that a spate of years with relatively stable temperatures indicates that the threat of global warming has been overblown.

That would be the gifted writer-director David O. Russell, whose triumph with "The Fighter" two years ago marked a return to form after a spate of lean years.

They say many fewer cases are being pursued by journalists, after a spate of exonerations several years ago based on the work of reporters.

The digitization of books has facilitated the rerelease of a spate of nonfiction works years or decades after their initial publication, and in some cases the common interpretation of their subject matter has evolved or changed significantly.

Last week the Met Office predicted another summer of above-average temperatures, after a spate of record-breaking years, while earlier this month the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued an apocalyptic warning of future mass migrations fuelled by loss of fertile land, droughts, rising seas and more intense storms - the very problems The Edge would address.

In a spate of interviews that year, Shane MacGowan had been detailing his adoration for the Leeds post-punk band Delta 5.

The two-year reform programme, under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, was prompted by a spate of revelations in recent years about the tax affairs of multinationals including Starbucks, Google and Amazon.

Guards have been posted at schools across China after a spate of attacks in recent years.

"The Fed's move raises a spate of important issues five years after the financial crisis of 2008," Mr. Eavis writes.

"I think the slasher genre is back in a big way, largely as a reaction to the last few years' spate of dreary, serious or meanspirited horror films.