Sentence examples for start of a decade from inspiring English sources

It was the start of a decade which would forever be associated with creativity and entertainment.

Thompson was writing in 1970, the start of a decade of convulsive industrial militancy.

That's an open-minded characterization at the start of a decade dominated by red-baiting and fear of outlanders in general.

At the start of a decade of strife and realpolitik, it was already a film out of time, for the dreamers only.

The 1951 election ended the post-war Labour governments, put Labour into opposition for 13 years and marked the start of a decade of bitter internecine warfare in the party.

A first-class degree in history and economics at University College, Oxford (1977), and a postgraduate teacher-training certificate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, were Danchev's passport to Sandhurst in 1978 and the start of a decade as an officer in the Royal Army Education Corps.

Russia was at the start of a decade-long economic boom.

Perceived as a bunch of old fogeys from the start of a decade-long recording career, the six-piece band has followed the worn path of early hits, drug-fueled mid-career slump, and critically acclaimed comeback.

After the ouster of Mr. Mubarak, it was Mr. Shater who explained to the news media that the Brotherhood had pledged not to field a presidential candidate, to avoid repeating the experience of the short-lived Islamist victory in the 1991 Algerian elections, which elicited a military crackdown and the start of a decade-long civil war.

As the Chancellor, George Osborne, never tires of pointing out, Britain missed the start of a decade-long bull market in gold because his predecessor, Gordon Brown, decided to sell about 60 per cent of the UK's reserves soon after Labour took office.

It was the start of a decade-long personal journey to help Afghan women break the relentless cycle of poverty.