Sentence examples for start of decades from inspiring English sources

In addition, we now have many people serving very long sentences for whom basic and key skills are relevant only at the start of decades of incarceration.

Lorenzo Olarte, curator of the Evita museum at the headquarters of the General Workers Confederation, remembers meeting Evita as a 10-year-old student activist – the start of decades of devotion that continue to this day.

The names of nearly 5,000 Afghans killed by a Soviet-backed government in purges that marked the start of decades of violence have been published by the Dutch government, 35 years after the men died.

Chinese factory-cities have a head start of decades and billions in investment, and America isn't going to catch up by putting up a few poky facilities here and there.

But that is down from around 90% at the start of decade.

He returned to Tibet in the 1990s to try to capture this musical history on tape, but the Chinese had a head start of several decades.

However, far from being a prelude to obscurity, this was the start of two decades of high-profile political and media activity.

For them, the departure northwards of the last Soviet soldier over the Friendship Bridge across the Oxus river was the start of two decades of unending, and unfinished, turmoil.

Between 1533 and 1540, the Tudor King Henry VIII took control of the English Church from Rome, the start of several decades of religious tension in England.

It is the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade.

A national campaign has raised enrolment from 86% at the start of the decade to 91%.